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Quotes About Temper

Everybody's got a mean side. Just don't feed it till it grows.
~ Denis Johnson
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so ' no one says 'you're so moody ' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
~ Denise Mina
There's nothing to get. It's the law. Skye's hold on her temper slipped. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
~ Denise Swanson
Are you sulking?" "Me? No. I don't sulk." "You sound like you're sulking." "I'm just waiting for the violent urges to subside.
~ Derek Landy
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
~ Joseph Addison
I haven't got a lot of patience.
~ Jeffrey Katzenberg
is also famous for his outbursts of temper and his put-downs of employees
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn't come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
I'm not snapping," I snapped.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.
~ Jennifer Echols
I was feeling the height of bitchiness.
~ Jennifer L. Armentrout
Libby's on-again, off-again boyfriend—who had a fondness for punching walls and extolling his own virtues for not punching Libby
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you.
~ Jennifer Niven
I've learned if you're ever angry enough to hit somebody, don't do it. Cool down and get yourself a pistol.
~ Elmore Leonard
Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
~ Emily Bronte
You shall not leave me in that temper. I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!
~ Emily Bronte
there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.
~ Emily Bronte
The thunder crumbled like a stuff — How good to be safe in tombs, Where nature's temper cannot reach
~ Emily Dickinson
The weather turned to damp heat, the kind that settled on the shoulders and made people walk as if they were twenty pounds too heavy. It pointed tempers and blunted energy, and gave despair a great seductive power.
~ Emma Bull
I don't have to answer to you. For anything." Willy's eyes narrowed. "Okay," Eddi said. "I should be patient. But all three of us just spent the last—however long it was—with people trying to kill us. It frays your temper. So if you want to discuss the night's events, do it. But if you'd rather play B-movie gestapo officer, you can play somewhere else.
~ Emma Bull
No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house
~ Enid Blyton
No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house. - The Land of Tempers
~ Enid Blyton
she often had a temper that made a PMS-ing harpy going into nicotine withdrawal look like a chubby fuzzy bunny that burped daisies and shot rainbows out its ass.
~ Amy Lane
Hair-trigger temper, but he wept at Hallmark commercials.
~ Amy Sohn