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I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
Author:
Susannah York
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Author:
William Yeats
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Author:
Edward Weston
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Author:
Orson Welles
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Author:
William Warburton
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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
Author:
Julia Roberts
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I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I lost my temper on stage.
Author:
Michael Richards
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
Author:
Francis Quarles
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I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
Author:
Charles Perrault
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
Author:
Peter Oliver
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
Author:
Sean O'Casey
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Author:
Chuck Norris
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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.
Author:
Hannah More
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Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
Author:
Josh McDowell
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
Author:
John Malkovich
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I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
Author:
John Malkovich
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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Author:
Louis Louis XIV
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
Author:
John Keats
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
Author:
Calamity Jane
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
Author:
William James
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I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
Author:
Janet Jackson
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Author:
Washington Irving
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Author:
Washington Irving
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We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
Author:
Mark Hurd
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
Author:
David Hume
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Author:
Horace
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
Author:
George Grenville
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Author:
Robert Frost
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Author:
Ford Frick
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
Author:
Bernie Ebbers
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
Author:
Richard Davis
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To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
Author:
Colin Davis
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Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
Author:
James Cozzens
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Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Author:
Warren Christopher
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Author:
M. Casey
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
Author:
James Burke
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Author:
Anthony Burgess
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Author:
Louis Brandeis
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I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
Author:
Paul Boyer
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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
Author:
Dirk Bogarde
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Author:
Isaac Barrow
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Author:
James Barrie
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Author:
Desi Arnaz
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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Author:
Antisthenes
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Author:
Alfred Adler
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Author:
Joseph Addison
