“What is said is given out to suit the temperament of the hearers” — Sri Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
“The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok Copy Share Image
“He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll… — Aimee Liu Copy Share Image
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
“Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.” — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“We are all somewhat mercurial for temperament, and it is much easier to believe that all is well when the sun is… — Grace May North Copy Share Image