Zitat des Tages über Temperament / Temper:
I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.
I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
I have a hell-fire temper.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
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 always a vice.
To lose your temper is only useful once a year.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!
If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
