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Tag Name "Tempers" (49)

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My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Vincent Cassel
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Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.
David Hume
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Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.
Wilferd Peterson
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Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
Euripides
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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
William Law
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The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.
William Melmoth
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A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.
Gilbert Murray
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We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch in the family, our tempers and in company, our tongues.
Hannah More
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A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
Henry Fielding
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac
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Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.
Jerome Groopman
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Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Joseph Joubert
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It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.
Aeschines
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Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.
Martin Luther
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
Alain de Botton
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For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.
Patrick Ness
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
Babe Ruth
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
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Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
Bisco Hatori
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Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.
Rainbow Rowell
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If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
Catharine Beecher
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
Samuel Rutherford
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