Quotes About Temper

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

biting your head off

Jeez. Cool your tool.

Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded.

A man with a knife making threats." "Ooooh. Big bad man with big bad knife." Stan Jessup, two ex-wives, six kids, short temper.

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

In the world we grew up in, our most ingrained economic and political habit was growth; it's the reflex we're going to have to temper, and it's going to be tough.

When anger takes over, it acts with uncontrollable rage. We say things, feel things, and do things way out of proportion. Anger is emotional drunkenness.

The woman is bad-tempered because she's terrified.

He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his temper over them; but he felt now that he could not rebuke this flower of his life, this innocent form, water and youth are inseparable companions, and besides it's Christmas night. So he merely hinted again that she must have forgotten again that he had promised to build her a house.

Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.

I enjoyed throwing the toys out of the pram, although not in a petulant way.

People six foot seven and 250 pounds should never lose their tempers," I explained with a calm voice. "It can be unhealthy for everyone involved.

He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

There was such a thing as woman's work and it consisted chiefly, Hillary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper.

Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.

You're probably just all cute when you're grumpy.

Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn't that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values?

There was a time when I was a hothead, and my temper wreaked havoc in my life until I learned to take myself out of the center of the circle. The real key to staying cool and calm is to relinquish selfishness and always consider the feelings of others.

I'm not cute at all. I'm a very cranky person.

He was sitting with his feet up on the desk, his face oily-looking under the fluorescent lights. He must have been in his late thirties, but he wasn't aging well. Some combination of temper and discontent had etched lines near his mouth and spoiled the clear brown of his eyes, leaving an impression of a man beleaguered by the Fates. His

temper is the most destructive of human faults. It supplants trust with fear; it poisons love; it breeds aversion or indifference; it sterilizes emotion.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.