Temperament Quotes - Page 5

• Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Art Is

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• Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

  Al-Jahiz

  Character, Men, Crow

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• Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Passion, Political

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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 the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Patterns, Levers

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• Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

  Wayne Rooney

  Careers, Young, Bad Press

  "Wayne's World Cup?". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

  John Ruskin

  Successful, Power, Best Effort

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• I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Conservative, Kind

  "Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.

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• There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety of reasons, I think a cosmopolitan spirit does naturally go with city life, that's the life of a very large proportion of human beings today. And I don't think rural people can't be cosmopolitan, in my sense.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

  Oscar Wilde

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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• 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 one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Book, Imagination

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Grief, Plunge, Cosette

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• 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 war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  War, Grief, Ocean

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• 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, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

  James A. Baldwin

  Grief, Keys, Punishment

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• Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

  Anita Loos

  Thinking, Two, Crowds

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• Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

  Sivananda

  Men, Understanding, Path

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• The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

  Nick Hornby

  Artistic, Ends, Products

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• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, Feelings, Acting

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• A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

  Timothy Keller

  Common Vision, People, Different

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.73, Penguin

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• My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

  Eva Gabor

  Late, Co Worker, Workers

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• By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

  Anne Desclos

  Makeup, Desire, Kinky

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• Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

  David Bronstein

  Fashion, Character, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love, Art, Knowing

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• Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

  Sijie Dai

  Heart, Character, Artist

  Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.17, Random House

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• In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.

  Madeleine Albright

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

  Julian Assange

  Crush, Creating, People

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards'". Interview to Spiegel, www.commondreams.org. July 26, 2010.

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