#temper

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. ↗

— John Keats

#come #i #i am #kick #scarcely

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. ↗

— Glenn Close

#because #being #difficult #ego #fools

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

— George Grenville

#enforce #government #how #knows #temper

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#fate #fools #perhaps #sign #temperament

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#armed #armed forces #because #cause #concerned

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#attitude #made #may #prohibition #protest

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. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#calm #crisis #death #difficult #face

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature. ↗

— David Tudor

#like #much #performing #putting #raising

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #business #caught #certainly #company

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#colours #consider #dependence #forth #instance