Temperament Quotes · Page 16

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

— Martin Luther

“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to…

— Eudora Welty

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness…

— Tryon Edwards

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had…

— Gustave Flaubert

But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key…

— Anonymous

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us…

— William E. Gladstone

Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all…

— Chuck Ragan

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

— John McCain

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

— Christopher Lasch

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly…

— Thomas Hardy

How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of…

— Charlie Munger

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

— Tilda Swinton

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be…

— David Keirsey

We`ll go here on [Donald] Trump`s temperament. Trump`s reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

— Chuck Todd

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat…

— Wole Soyinka

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level.

— Jimmy White

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a…

— Ted Danson

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in…

— Frans de Waal

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and…

— Dale Carnegie

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations…

— Oscar Wilde

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the…

— Gail Caldwell