Temper Quotes
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My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.
Tom Conti
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats
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It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.
Nigel Slater
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I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
Andrew Flintoff
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Temper justice with mercy.
John Milton
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I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
Jesse Livermore
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
Isaac Watts
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
Ava Gardner
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I don't have a problem with my temper.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
Susannah York
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
Thomas Hood
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
George Grenville
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He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.
Bohumil Hrabal
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I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.
Cass Sunstein
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Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.
Ann Hasseltine Judson
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What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
Wes Anderson
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Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
Terry Brooks
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Why, what a temper you are in!
Lewis Carroll