Temper Quotes - Page 25

• Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

  William Cowper

  Despair, Milk, Purpose

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.78

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• Her elf is going to do just that,” he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. “I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines.

  Kim Harrison

  Boys, Hair, Auburn

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• Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch

  Gena Showalter

  Dark, Men, People

  Gena Showalter (2016). “Royal House of Shadows: Part 1 of 12”, p.8, Harlequin

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• He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Grumbling, Way

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

  Louise Erdrich

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

  Wes Anderson

  Mirrors, Hands, Lost

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• The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

  Ihab Hassan

  Writing, Speak, Plagiarism

  Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Queens, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

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• Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.

  Christopher Paolini

  Warrior, Knowing, Use

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• My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dad, Real, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

  Will Oldham

  Kids, Thinking, Adults

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Ems, Tantrums

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.

  Julian Lennon

  Thinking, Used, Celtic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

  Jim Butcher

  Cheating, Lying, Drinking

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• He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Soul, Sensitive, Gentle

  Bohumil Hrabal (2007). “I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Freedom, Law

  George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.501, epubli

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• When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

  Anne Bishop

  Men, Balls, Pants

  Anne Bishop (2000). “Queen of the Darkness: The Black Jewels Trilogy 3”, p.42, Penguin

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• Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Clever, People, Culture

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Jungle, Depends

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.83, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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

  Fire, Mold, Hammers

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• Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

  William Cowper

  Fall, Men, Giving

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.85

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• I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

  George Washington

  Prayer, Blessed, Humble

  Circular Letter to the Governours of the several States, June 18, 1783.

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• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  Harriet Martineau

  Religion, Atheism, Literature

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. 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 a species of vice.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Political, Vices

  Thomas Paine (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.383, OUP Oxford

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