Lewis Carroll Quotes

Why, what a temper you are in!

Lewis Carroll

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• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Religion
  • Temper
  • Pursuit

• I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Temper
  • Descendants
  • Hungarian

• I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Temper

• It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Honesty
  • Demands
  • Temper

• There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Empathy

• Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Modern
  • Temper

• I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Track

• It could happen in any game, but you know what? I don't hold any grudges. He's probably bitter still, but I'm just going to continue to pray for him, and hopefully it will get better, his temper will change. I still have respect for his bat, he's a good hitter and I'm just going to continue to do what I have to do. And I was glad that, when I'm OK, I don't need to hit anybody.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Game
  • Change
  • Temper

• A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

  

  William Cowper
  • Joy
  • Passionate
  • Fierce

• Good temper is an estate for life.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Temper
  • Estates

• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Facts
  • Esteem

• 'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Religion
  • Mankind
  • Hot

• I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.

  

  William Powell
  • Circumstances
  • Appreciate
  • Temper

• O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Sweet
  • Mad

• Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

  

  William Warburton
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Judgment

• One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Angry
  • Certain
  • Anger

• Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

  

  John Milton
  • Changed
  • Temper
  • Severe

• Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

  

  I. J. Good
  • Men
  • Design
  • Clever

• I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Desperation

• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  

  William Golding
  • Law
  • Hunting
  • Agree

• I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Live
  • Today
  • Technology

• Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

  

  William Feather
  • Essence
  • Cooperation
  • Linked

• Why, what a temper you are in!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Temper