#temper

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#always #been #blown #else #everything

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#income #matter #solvency #temperament

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#approach #capacity #challenge #engaging #error

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ↗

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#i #me #temper

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#temper #business

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#almost #amazing #balances #been #checks

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#prison

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#back #bad #banished #being #civility