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Quotes About Temperament

It has occurred to me," she ventured, "that the family temperament isn't well suited to stewardship." Amusement glinted in his eyes. "Speaking as a man who has the family temperament in full measure, I agree. I wish I could claim to have a mother from steady, pragmatic stock, to balance out the Ravenel wildness. Unfortunately she was worse.
~ Lisa Kleypas
mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.
~ Unknown
There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.
~ Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
Haruto is a good man. He's just—a little coercive at times. He also has a quick temper, not much patience. But his temperament is also what makes him good at business. His mind is incredibly sharp. He doesn't tolerate fools or people who think too slowly. It's what enables him to bring in the big bucks and afford us places like this." She gestures to her home. "I'm sure you understand.
~ Unknown
Hey, He croaked. You. Arrogant bitch ghost. I'm not really into this whole hero thing, Mort said. Don't have the temperament for it. Don't know a lot about the villain side of the equation, either. He planted his feet,facing the Corpsetaker squarely, his hands clenched into fist at his side. But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn't have left a freaking ectomancer a pit full of wraiths to play with.
~ Jim Butcher
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrustive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
~ Joan Didion
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does.
~ Joan Didion
I can be nice on occasion, Mike said.
~ Joanne Fluke
Its not an attitude ,its the way I am.
~ Unknown
Don't bother communicating with me when I am in a bad mood. I am a professional when it comes to ignoring.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I love being mean, sometimes I don't.
~ Unknown
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~ Winston Churchill
La nostra nevrosi, amico mio, è un prodotto del nostro modo di vivere un po' troppo artistico; ma è anche una fatale eredità, che la civiltà rende di generazione in generazione sempre più onerosa. Se vogliamo diagnosticare lo stato del nostro temperamento dobbiamo annoverarci fra quelli che soffrono di una nevrosi la cui origine è già molto lontana.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
New York isn't jobs, they reply, it's temperament. Most people are in New York because they need evidence - in large quantities - of human expressiveness; and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot.
~ Vivian Gornick
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
~ James Keller
I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest
~ Dervla Murphy
I didn't know what it was about red hair, but many years' experience with Jamie, Brianna, and Jemmy had taught me that while most people became irritable when hungry, a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb.
~ Diana Gabaldon
a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
BILIOUS HUMOURS
~ Diana Gabaldon
Now, I am not basically a nice person. I _am_ snice, arrogant, and short-tempered. I try to overcome these things, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm not a very assertive person.
~ Prunella Scales
I like the effect drink has on me.
~ Oliver Reed
For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.
~ Peter Criss