Temperament Quotes · Page 9

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament…

— Frank Moore Cross

You have to find what your temperament is like and live around it. I find I work really well off the top…

— Alex Katz

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily…

— Michael Haneke

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

— John Wimber

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well…

— Henry Bessemer

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament…

— Izabella Scorupco

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic.…

— Tom Bennett

How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" …these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social…

— Jane Addams

“The upsides of the high-reactive temperament have been documented in exciting research that scientists are only now beginning to pull together. One…

— Susan Cain

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either.…

— James Lasdun

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist,…

— Tony Kushner

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at…

— Jerry Pinkney

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious…

— Aristotle

The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and…

— Georges Rouault

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and…

— Marianne Williamson

I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament.

— Alex Higgins

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not…

— Carl Sagan

A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra…

— Oscar Levant

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us…

— Honore de Balzac

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud;…

— Emile Zola

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent…

— Giacomo Casanova

If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it.…

— Aphex Twin

There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest…

— William Faulkner

“The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't…

— James Hauenstein

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty…

— Oscar Wilde

The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever…

— Rudolf G. Binding

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what…

— Glenn Close

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

— Susan Sontag

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age…

— William Shakespeare

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own…

— Robertson Davies

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a…

— Carl Sagan

Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when…

— Donald Trump

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

— L. Tom Perry

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

— Wole Soyinka

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton