#tempe

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#athlete #bring #day #different #keep

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#i #natural #patience #producer #temperamentally

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#been #carbon #carbon dioxide #caused #dioxide

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#door #joy #nose #repose #slam

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #i do #lose #now #often

I still have a temper, I suppose. ↗

— John Malkovich

#still #suppose #temper

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. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anywhere #comprehend #exalted #film #film set