Temperament Quotes - Page 14

• I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

  Wole Soyinka

  Numbers, Creative, Contradiction

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

  Al Pacino

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

  Al Pacino

  Italian, Emotion, Tradition

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's a fact that everything is connected with the individualist temperament, the kind of economic environment which stresses the individual, but this is not directly the result of a state policy, nor do I see any good way by which the state could intervene except in some marginal ways.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Stress, Way, Facts

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

  David Remnick

  Children, Hate, Character

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Assets, Strongest

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, America, Trump

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the same in person as when he was speaking publicly. I think Donald Trump has a stage persona and he also has a temperament when meeting with his advisers. Now, the positions are the same, but the attitude is a little bit different.

  Kris Kobach

  Attitude, Thinking, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Giving, Attention

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

  Michael Gira

  Beautiful, Swans, Ugly

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• Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at a rally in Harlem ... Gore went on to praise Dean for taking a tough anti-war stance before the invasion of Iraq and he praised Dean supporters in hopes that will ease his concerns over lack of foreign policy experience, and his lack of support among blacks and Latinos, and his hot temperament, and perceived arrogance, and policy flip-flops, and campaign glitches. Well, there's a lot going on here.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Support

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• Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Gone, Strive

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• Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Reality, Surprise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.216, Penguin

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• While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Animal, Air, Four Elements

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section 5,

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• Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Personality, Slavery, Chains

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• It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Views, Mind, Body

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• It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Reflection, Firm

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Worst Enemy, Conquer, Enemy

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• It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Freedom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Father, Personality

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• Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.

  Andre Simon

  Strong, Food, Blessed

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Pilots

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• I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Expectations, Dilettantes

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

  Jess Row

  People, Pessimistic, Quiet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

  Edwin Markham

  Clever, Men, Poetic

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