Temperament Quotes - Page 9

• If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Fear, What Matters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

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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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• 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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• My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

  Philip Levine

  Novelists

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• Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.

  Atom Egoyan

  Jobs, Light, Trying

  "Atom Egoyan Discusses Seeking Truth With Devil’s Knot". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.

  Francois Hollande

  Europe, Equilibrium, Banner

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• A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Dream, Religious, Stars

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• Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

  Warren Buffett

  Quality, Investing, Way

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• There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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• Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

  Donald Trump

  President, Qualified, Senate

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

  Oscar Levant

  Hate, Realization, Orchestra

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• If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Political, Our Love

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• I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?

  J. D. McClatchy

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

  John McCain

  Mother, Thank God, United States

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• The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Believe, Men, Conservative

  "We stand in the dock with America" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

  Luke Johnson

  Men, Mechanism

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