Quotes About Temper

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

I have always said that I cannot do a show like 'Bigg Boss' because it's not my cup of tea. I am a very short-tempered girl.

There is nothing I dread so much," he said, "as these brave generals." Keenly aware of America's size and the temper of her people, he had advocated a strategy of naval blockade rather than a land war, again to no avail.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.

He was deficient in such qualities as patience, even temper, cooperativeness, and the capacity to subordinate oneself, in small ways and large, to the needs of an institution.

There is a 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

It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.

She had a temper like a boar caught in briars at the best," Birgitte said softly to no one in particular. "Not at all like anyone close by.

That had been the way of their journey, for the most part. Quiet, except when her temper got the best of her, and sometimes when she shouted the sound of her voice seemed to crash in the silence like breaking glass.

Morgase had a temper, but I thought I could ignore that, so it ended with her wanting to kill me. —Thom Merrillin from Wheel of Time

I won't shout at you! Nyanaeve shouted.

I guess you've got a spice of temper, commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. It goes with hair like yours, I reckon

Ilse lost her temper at once and went into a true Burnley tantrum. She was very fluent in her rages and the volley of abusive dictionary words which she hurled at Emily would have staggered most of the Blair Water Girls. But Emily was too much at home with words to be floored so easily; she grew angry too, but in a cool, dignified, Murray way which was more exasperating than violence.

I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified, not because it was wicked.

every personal or behavioral problem one might wish to change (for example, bad temper, perverted sexual desires, depression, anxiety, overeating) results ultimately from violations of the command to love.

He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work.

Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said. "You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...

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

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.

Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, at any time, it has unfortunately lost it; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper, which is so necessary to self-satisfaction and enjoyment.

I've often said I don't lose my temper as much as use it. I don't do either unless I have to because I love peace and harmony, but when you step in my territory, I will call you on it.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.