Quotes About Temperament

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

That must have been the character of the man.

But I am also aware that in animals, as well as people, there is an inborn temperament, a way of seeing the world, that interacts with the environment, and that shapes personality. There's nobody else doing what I'm doing. It may be weird, but it's unique.

Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.

When they are not at war they do a little hunting, but spend most of their time in idleness, sleeping and eating. The strongest and most warlike do nothing. They vegetate, while the care of hearth and home and fields is left to the women, the old and the weak. Strange inconsistency of temperament, which makes the same men lovers of sloth and haters of tranquility.

I'm supposed to be mercurial! Honey-haired, cello-voiced, mercurial Tellulah, that's me!

I suppose I've always had a yearning, in spite of the fact that I am temperamentally unsuited to the role in every possible way, to be a hero out of myth, golden and reckless, galloping bareback to meet my fate on a wild horse no other man could ride.

no one can deny the differences between the populaces of nations, in both physical appearance and temperament. This can only be the result of the maternal influence: the mother's womb is a vessel in which the social environment is incarnated. For example,

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

Problem is not aggression. It is lack of discipline. A person can be aggressive and still be constructive in society if she controls her passions.

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

He was not a scholar, and he did not have the temperament of one who finds knowledge an end in itself.

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

he swung back and forth between what they told him to do and what he thought would please the public. He was gay and personally charming, and possessed what was called a "mercurial temperament"—meaning that he didn't mind saying the opposite of what he had said yesterday, if in the meantime he had found that he was in danger of losing votes.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.