Quotes About Temper

I don't believe this," Emma said, temper flaring. "I came all this way to help you and you're scolding me like a child!" "I've got half a mind to take you over my knee and paddle you." He took another swallow of the whiskey and made a lusty sound of satisfaction as it went down. "You wouldn't dare." Steven flinched as the needle made its first pass through his skin. "Ask Joellen Lenahan about that." Emma

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

Waiting on God is a bore; but what fun to argue, to score off opponents, to lose one's temper and call it 'righteous indignation,' and at last to pass from controversy to blows, from words to what St. Augustine so deliciously described as the 'benignant asperity' of persecution and punishment!

Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.

To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold simply because they used such language; each time they opened their mouths they proclaimed I am a person who is poor in words.

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

A heart that boils over with rage blisters the mind and scalds reason.

David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.

A little pot boils easily.

As a representative institution, the U.S. Congress embodies the temper of its time. When the nation is polarized and civic commonality dwindles, Congress reflects that image back to the American people.

You're less of a charmer, and more of a 'fury from the depths of hell' type of person.

You'd be good at being angry," he said. "You'd get it right.

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house!

Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the middle way.

A woman of hot temper - and a man the same - Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.

But you will bear your sickness more easily both with quiet, and with a noble temper, for it is necessary for mortals to suffer misery.

He seems to be in a very bad temper." "Not really. He's always like that to waiters. You see he's a communist. Most of the staff of The Twopence are—they're University men, you see. Pappenhacker says that every time you are polite to a proletarian you are helping to bolster up the capitalist system. He's very clever of course, but he gets rather unpopular.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

I used to stay getting in fights.

I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.