I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
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.
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.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
I lost my temper on stage.
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
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.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.
I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.
I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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.
A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
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.
Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.
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.
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.
