#temper

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. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#backward #confined #forward #generally #innovation

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#discover #generally #men #principles #prosperity

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#assistance #controlled #curtailed #fall #foreign

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. ↗

— George Grenville

#enforce #government #how #knows #temper

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#inferiority #interpret #must #sign #temper

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#being #i #reputation #temperamental

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#countenance #cry #down #exercises #eyes

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. ↗

— Joan Didion

#going #hysterical #i #kind #like

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget