Quotes About Temperament

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

I think I'm more European in personality.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

The best part of health is fine disposition

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

I take after my dad in the calm and measured way he approaches situations.

I'm not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

I'm very Aries - every characteristic, good and the bad.

Not every chef is a yeller, but I have to say that even a chef who is not a yeller might have a time when that rule might get broken.

I try to show a little bit of excitement, only when I'm on the court, but off the court I'm just chill.

You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.

What is the moral equivalent of war—not the equivalent of its carnage, its xenophobias, its savagery—but its urgency, its meaning, its solidarity? What else generates what he called the "civic temperament"?

I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

As one Rabbi put it, "God does not come to man oppressively but commensurately with a man's power of receiving him."82 This very important rabbinic insight meant that God could not be described in a formula as though he were the same for everybody: he was an essentially subjective experience. Each individual would experience the reality of "God" in a different way to answer the needs of his or her own particular temperament.

But melancholy, that was his own true humor. A miserable bastard, in other words.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.