By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head. — Anne Desclos 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
Ding has a fantastic all-round game. His temperament is also at a very high level. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker 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
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous 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
If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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