With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Let's keep in mind that Donald Trump didn't win because of himself. He won in spite of himself. A quarter of his… — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling.… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little,… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly,… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good… — Howard Pyle 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
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to… — Eudora Welty 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
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The simplest truth is that we’re all killing ourselves with our temperament. A person will tend toward being bossy, or high-strung, or… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
![“I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires…” quote by David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/david-mccullough-1091_barack_i-think-it-is-one-of-the-most-extraordin_2784190.jpg)
![“I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c2/hillary-clinton-51_ask-me_i-m-going-to-keep-talking-about-what-i-w_1524299.jpg)
