Temper Quotations | Page 2
Temper Quotes from:
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Benjamin Franklin
- Dan Culloton
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- James Gandolfini
- John Malkovich
- Lewis Carroll
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sathya Baba
- William Hazlitt
- Aarti Sequeira
- Abraham Lincoln
- Adam Pine
- Agatha Christie
- Alex Beuzelin
- Alfie Allen
- Alfred Adler
- Ameen Rihani
- Andrew Flintoff
- Andrew Lau
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Angry Quotes
At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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Backwards Quotes
As we got to know John and June, what we needed them to understand was that the people they were now was not the people they were then, ... And there was the challenge of combining the grand wisdom and spirituality of these elder legends backwards into the young people they were, as they were learning those lessons. To tell how they got to be here, we had to go to those darker places, and not temper it.
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Behave Quotes
It's a little funny for me, because I'm part Jamaican as well, and I am very familiar with the Jamaican temper - sadly this is what can happen if it is not curtailed. However, as an African-American fashion designer, this is the woman that a great deal of people look up to, and for her to behave like this is simply unacceptable. This is my little way of saying, 'Naomi, please get help!
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Coming Quotes
I do find it quite easy to get angry, especially after a hard day. In public, you have to try and rein in your temper because people try and goad you into it. But I did lose it with a company the other day. I shrieked at them because they were lying about coming to fix my boiler. I went ballistic.
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Attention Quotes
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.
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Complaining Quotes
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.