#tempe

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#bit #hot #i #i can #passionate

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#dies #fails #knowledge #lead #life

Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send. ↗

— Nathan Reese Maher

#cityspire #death #dreams #gothic #romance

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#genes #patterns #temperments #thought #life

I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. "I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too." "I'd walk through fire for you," he rasped, his voice hoarse and broken. "I have walked through fire for you. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#lazarussgextraordinaire #temperance #wicked-intensions #love

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. ↗

— William Law

#alone #christianity #conforming #devotion #enjoyments

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ↗

— Will Carleton

#beetle #drought #each #fall #farmer

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#credit #dressed #good #man #may

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. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#blows #down #fast #goes #hear

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. ↗

— Montserrat Caballe

#give #give me #impossible #me #moment