The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic.… — Tom Bennett Copy Share Image
I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament. — Alex Higgins Copy Share Image
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The "stage" on which you perform in film and TV is much smaller. Moving your eyes across the frame is equivalent to… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose… — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere Copy Share Image
The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide… — Christy Mathewson Copy Share Image
The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had… — Montserrat Caballe Copy Share Image
Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image