#temper

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. ↗

— William Law

#cares #certainly #christian #christian life #death

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#door #joy #nose #repose #slam

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#broken #daily #dimly #i #ink

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#different types #either #get #leader #like

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#constantly #crisis #experiencing #found #i

At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#demonstrated #guinea #i #known #method

You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#boxes #containers #controlled #covered #each

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