#temper

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#colours #consider #dependence #forth #instance

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#coral #find #growth #had #i

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#keep #lose #me #never #rule

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#both sides #certainly #coaches #cross #every

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

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

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#around #became #brat #everyone #father