A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. — Artur Rodzinski Copy Share Image
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want… — Shilpa Shetty 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying that I think one man is better than the other. I'm not saying that either is kinder or wiser… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening… — Harlan Cleveland Copy Share Image
I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has, because we know how to win. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image