Temper Quotes

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Temper justice with mercy.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

He doesn’t beat me,” I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.” “She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we’re working on that, aren’t we, Ms. Lane?

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.

Why, what a temper you are in!

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

The wise man never loses his temper.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

You've got a bit of a temper, don't you?

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone stabbing a mouse with a fork repeatedly.

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

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.

Temper your future actions.