Temper Quotes - Page 27

• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  J. I. Packer

  God, Character, Men

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• The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

  Germaine Greer

  Hurt, Regret, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Death, Warrior, Thinking

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• A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

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• I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.

  Ava Gardner

  Animal, Men, Drunk

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• The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. 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.

  George Santayana

  Life, Kindness, Philosophy

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• A person's fate is their own temper.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fate, Temperament, Persons

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• My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy,
  Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly,
  Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me,
  I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely

  T.I.

  Hip Hop, Hot, Icy

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• Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Fire

  Peter Kreeft (1994). “C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on The Abolition of Man”, p.90, Ignatius Press

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• Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Wise, Art, Brother

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• No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Struggle, Giving, Choices

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• The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Tests, Criminals

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• Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Law, Giving

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

  Nick Hornby

  Loneliness, Opposites, Trying

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.157, Penguin UK

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• There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

  Henry Fielding

  Hero, Men, Order

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• I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Needs

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• Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

  Benjamin

  Men, Quality, Unions

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• 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!

  Judy LaMarsh

  Feelings, Racing, Want

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 11, (p. 351), 1969.

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• Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.

  Max Horkheimer

  Men, Long, Principles

  "Critical Theory: Selected Essays" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 133), 1982.

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• The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical duty, whilst the truths which I find peculiarly developed in India - developed to a greater extent than anywhere else, - and in the Eastern countries generally, are those which have reference to sweetness of communion, sweetness of temper, meekness and resignation unto God.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Character, India

  Parting words at Southampton, September 17, 1870.

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• I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Believe, Ice, Mouths

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• Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

  Arthur Lynch

  Life, Thinking, Should Have

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.

  Robby Gordon

  Sorry, Two, Race

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• Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

  Betty Boothroyd

  Language, Moderation, Characteristics

  1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.

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• If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Ambition, People, Time On Earth

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