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306 Temperament quotes by 245 unique authors

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means… — Charles Baudelaire
I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I… — Anais Nin
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not… — Robertson Davies
Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward. — Hillary Clinton
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a… — Carl Sagan
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. — Emile Zola
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a… — Aldous Huxley
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… — David McCullough
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic. — Julian Barnes
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.… — Oscar Wilde
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. — Victor Hugo
How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder,… — James A. Baldwin
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to… — Oscar Wilde
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and… — Oscar Wilde
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. — Anita Loos
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path. — Sivananda
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among… — Jon Krakauer
She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion,… — Khaled Hosseini
With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part… — Stephenie Meyer

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