It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national… — John Montgomery Ward 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
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity,… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is… — Ellen Swallow Richards 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
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm 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
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
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
Taureans stubbornly cling to their own ideas and habits and may fail to take advantage of new ideas or situations, because they… — Taurius Copy Share Image
It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to… — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I… — Jean Shrimpton Copy Share Image
Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Meekness is the quality of those who are "Godfearing, righteous, humble, teachable, and patient under suffering." Those who possess this attribute are… — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have… — Enoch Fitch Burr Copy Share Image
From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
