#temper

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#around #ending #fruits #new #problems

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#being #i #reputation #temperamental

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#countenance #cry #down #exercises #eyes

Few artists can afford artistic temperament. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#artistic #artists #few #temperament

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

#absent #children #day #during #father

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. ↗

— James Ellroy

#am #authority #conservative #criminal #disapprove

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#being #character #constituent #corrected #dependent

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. ↗

— John Keats

#come #i #i am #kick #scarcely