Quotes About Temperament

One of the greatest misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt - in his time and ours - is that he was impetuous.

A normal life includes the occasional black mood

It is my happiest thought that with all the drawbacks of my temperament, I have yet to lose a real friend.

We didn't just love each other and make each other laugh and share the same basic values—there was symmetry there, the way we complemented each other. We could have each other's back, guard each other's blind spots. We could be a team. Of course, that was another way of saying we were very different, in experience and in temperament.

Small was her destiny. And despite that, or because of it, she'd grown up with the furies in her sails, honing her confidence in verbal and physical combat with a brother who quickly doubled her in size. She had the temperament of the fire-eyed little shih tzu at the dog park that takes on the rottweilers with zero sense of disadvantage.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

I have a tremendous joie de vivre... alternating with irritability of course.

No matter how good your intentions, or how sweet and tolerant your temperament, you will not maintain good relations with someone you fight

The person who is speaking in this manner believes that winning the argument makes him right, and that doing so necessarily validates the assumption-structure of the dominance hierarchy he most identifies with. This is often—and unsurprisingly—the hierarchy within which he has achieved the most success, or the one with which he is most temperamentally aligned. Almost all discussions involving politics or economics unfold in this manner,

But just as often, people are bullied because they won't fight back. This happens not infrequently to people who are by temperament compassionate and self-sacrificing—particularly if they are also high in negative emotion, and make a lot of gratifying noises of suffering when someone sadistic confronts them (children who cry more easily, for example, are more frequently bullied).

And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not exist; the only thing that mattered was the temperament of the artist; the only thing of interest was the way his brain worked, regardless of the subject he was treating.

It was here that she was indeed Woman, for here she gave rein to her ardent and cruel temperament. She was living, more refined and savage, more execrable and exquisite. She more energetically awakened the dulled senses of man, more surely bewitched and subdued his power of will, with the charm of a tall venereal flower, on sacrilegious beds, in impious hothouses.

El idealista perfecto sería romántico a los veinte años y estoico a los cincuenta; es tan anormal el estoicismo en la juventud como el romanticismo en la edad madura. Lo que al principio enciende su pasión, debe cristalizarse después en suprema dignidad: ésa es la lógica de su temperamento.

El hombre de fino carácter es capaz de mostrar encrespamientos sublimes, como el océano; en los temperamentos domesticados todo parece quieta superficie, como en las ciénagas.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

It was clear to me that both were intelligent, kind people, but careless with each other's feelings, and poles apart in temperament. I liked both immensely; I hated their way together.

In many ways, Prince Philip was remarkably good-humored and long-suffering.

My worst quality is impatience.

I've been a pretty impatient driver my entire life.

Lennox is more like Clovis than she likes to think, physically and temperamentally Winsome reckons this is why Shirley chose him, subconsciously he was familiar to her Maybe that's why Winsome herself took to her son-in-law A younger, sexier version of the man she married

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.