The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. — Artur Rodzinski Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. — Robert Silverberg 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
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The most important time to hold your temper is when the other person has lost it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament. — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer. I'm known for a more crusading or quixotic temperament. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
