#temper

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#end #good #in the end #just #matter

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. ↗

— Peter Oliver

#entirely #ignorant #our #our people #people

A theory must be tempered with reality. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#reality #tempered #theory

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#anger #basically #experience #guy #i

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#good #moderately #moderation #ought #principle

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#enthusiasm #reason #tempered

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

#developed #earlier #element #general #important

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm. ↗

— Sean Paul

#got #i #keep #ladies #right

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#asking #become #concession #foot #four

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#am #because #ever #finish #first