#temper

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

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#course #first #hors #i #like

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#changes #comes #temperature #written #you

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

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

#constant #edged #grows #keener #never

She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood". ↗

— Marjorie Celona

#temper #woman #anger

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. ↗

— Ron Pearce

#rights #self-sacrifice #temper #anger

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#temper #thinking #anger