Temper Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

  Will Oldham

  Kids, Thinking, Adults

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Ems, Tantrums

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, Used, Celtic

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

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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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• Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wrath, Righteous, Indignation

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

  William Cowper

  Despair, Milk, Purpose

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.78

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• Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

  John Muir

  Squirrels, Color, Bird

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.

  Jeff Gordon

  Matter, Fighter, Sometimes

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• Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Brain, Battle

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.236

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• You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.

  James Anthony Froude

  Strong, People, Reason

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.82

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• Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

  Alain de Botton

  Sleep, Mind, Information

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

  Tony Dorsett

  Basketball, School, Boys

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• The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Giving, Calm

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, No. 18, 1665.

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• Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.

  George Washington

  Regret, Exercise, Men

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.

  Jessica Alba

  Stress, Makeup, Games

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.64, Rodale

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• I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Morality, Endeavor, Wit

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1809). “The Spectator”, p.44

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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

  Andre Maurois

  Games, Boxing, Hitting

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations."

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Secret, Age

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part III, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, War, Adversity

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• To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.

  Walter Pater

  Moving, Ambition, People

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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