#temper

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety." ↗

— Francis Quarles

#fearful #heart #lest #prudence #satiety

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#band #big #did #drums #get

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

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#bad #bad press #career #early #had

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #hurts #never #temper #tires

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#breasts #consistency #enduring #hatred #kindled

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation. ↗

— Javier Cuadros

#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing

To lose your temper is only useful once a year. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#once #only #temper #useful #year

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#been #bitter #born #century #disciplined