Quotes About Temper

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

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.

but if there was one thing I should have learned from them and did not learn, it was to control my temper. This is wisdom I should have attained a long time ago. Even now, when a flutter of my pulse makes me think of final things, I find myself losing my temper, because a drawer sticks or because I've misplaced my glasses.

No; — I do not think that. But her temper is so ungovernable, and she has, if I may say so, been so spoilt among you here, — I mean by the girls, of course, — that she does not know how to restrain herself.

There was very little in the dispute which seemed to be worthy of the place in which it occurred, or of the vigour with which it was conducted; but it served to show the temper of the parties, and to express the bitterness of the political feelings of the day. It was said at the time, that never within the memory of living politicians had so violent an animosity displayed itself in the House as had been witnessed on this night

It cannot be said that she was a bad woman, though she had in her time done an indescribable amount of evil. She had endeavoured to do good, failing partly by ignorance and partly from the effects of an unbridled, ambitious temper.

And I draw no distinction between young in years, and youthful in temper and disposition: the defect to which I allude being no direct result of the time, but of living at the beck and call of passion, and following each object as it rises. For to them that are such the knowledge comes to be unprofitable, as to those of imperfect self-control: but, to those who form their desires and act in accordance with reason, to have knowledge on these points must be very profitable.

What happened to you? Nick Remember what I told you about holding your temper, Malachai? Aeron Yeah? Nick Hold your temper. Aeron

He turned down the passageway to their little parlor, and sent the door swinging open with a crash. Losing my temper will not help, he said, and gave the door a vicious kick.

losing her temper, which she did rarely because she was so afraid of being ineffectual

Losing my temper will not help,' he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

Losing my temper will not help, he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

The fact is, if his majesty had been a little boy, he would have been whipped and sent to bed for the sulks;

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say— I hope that I shall never want to say!— that you Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful. You are not in a position to know everything That people say or do, or what they feel: Your temper terrifies them—everyone Will tell you only what you like to hear.

You criticize my temper ... unaware of the one you live with, you revile me.

You blame my temper but you do not see your own that lives within you; so you chide me instead." - Oedipus the King

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.