Temper Quotes - Page 18

• After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

  Frank Beddor

  Love, Husband, Wife

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

  Stephen King

  Ifs

  Stephen King (2013). “Under the Dome: A Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

  Alain de Botton

  Company We Keep, Expectations, Curiosity

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• You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work.” Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. “But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I’ve ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, Evil, Perfect

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• It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

  Agatha Christie

  Quiet People, Vengeance, Loses

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

  Rob Thurman

  Morning, Coffee, Drink

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.114, Penguin

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• If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Arrogant

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  Hannah More

  Children, Men, Roots

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• Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Trouble

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• The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

  Germaine Greer

  Hurt, Regret, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Death, Warrior, Thinking

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• A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

  James Joyce

  Country, Art, Style

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• If you're lucky on a team, even if you're not sisters or brothers, you become such a family that you get that kind of open and honest relationship. Where the chemistry is great and even if tempers flare, you forgive each other. I was always looking for a sisterhood. You're not always lucky enough to get that magical chemistry, but you can't win without it.

  Colleen Jones

  Brother, Team, Winning

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I still have a temper, I suppose.

  John Malkovich

  Stills

  "A multitude of Malkovich". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

  Frederick William Faber

  Home, Exercise, Self

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• Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

  Homer

  Judgement, Vehemence, Youth

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• Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Laughter, Nerves, Calm

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• At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Sarcastic, Father, Night

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• If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Kids, Stronger, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

  Joseph Butler

  People, Remember, Persons

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

  Mario Balotelli

  Want, Ifs, Loses

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• My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

  Tom Conti

  Kitchen, Plot, Utensils

  "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

  Ihab Hassan

  Writing, Speak, Plagiarism

  Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Queens, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

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• My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dad, Real, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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