#temper

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. ↗

#belief #clever #comparison #control #crying

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#every #experience #fruit #fully #garden

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#been #carbon #carbon dioxide #caused #dioxide

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#lamb #tempers #wind

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. ↗

— Peter Oliver

#entirely #ignorant #our #our people #people

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗

— George Orwell

#nationalism #power #self-deception #tempered

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#good #moderately #moderation #ought #principle

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm. ↗