#temper

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

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

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

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

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

— Robertson Davies

#temper #business

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ↗

— Louis XIV

#i #king #lose #should #temper

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#get #i #lose #scary #temper