Quotes About Temper

Courtesy of their tempers, both were now dressed in the Captain Asshole costume—which included, for no extra charge, the cape of disgrace, the booties of shame, and keys to the Fuck Up mobile. Christ

God, he looked fantastic in the suit. And the open collar of his shirt showed off his throat, the black silk making his skin look tanned. Too bad he was flat-out pissed. His face was as harsh as his temper, and with his hair pulled back, the aggressive thrust of his jaw was even more prominent. Something had set him off. Big-time. Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage.

I think rage is so ugly.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Hate is nothing, even in politics, hate is only temper and unhappiness; it's an accident. It is stupid and unkind to let it overtake one.

when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

I had seen her in a temper before – I tell her it's her French grandfather's fault, Mediterranean lack of self-control – and I knew she'd settle down now she'd taken it out on the tree.

He wants to punch something, but he knows that would do nothing but bust his knuckles. Having that much sense makes him feel old.

I've lost count of how many times I've caught myself in the half-second before I splattered temper everywhere and stuck myself cleaning up the mess for the rest of my life.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion. Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, they may be compelled to believe by force.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

If you don't get out of my way right this minute, I'm going to . . ." She pictured bringing up her knee hard and watching him writhe in pain on the floor. The image in her mind was as vivid as his shark image had been. Aidan leapt away from her, laughing as he did so. "You have a nasty little temper, Alexandria.

My woman has a temper?" "I prefer to say I have a sense of justice and when someone crosses it, it is at their peril.

accepting death folds the soul, tempers and layers it like a Damascus blade. When I'd thrown myself into the canal in grief, only to be pulled out by the Moor, I'd become colder, more durable.

Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.