#temper

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I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.


Paul D. Boyer


#back #bad #banished #being #civility

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.


Florenz Ziegfeld


#actually #apt #dancer #dancing #difference

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.


Miguel de Cervantes


#comes #felicity #happens #mixture #pure

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.


Lord Chesterfield


#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.


Dominic Chianese


#background #both #comes #explosive #father

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.


Warren Christopher


#courtroom #doing #else #important #lose

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.


Glenn Close


#comes #definition #diva #does #i

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.


Evelyn Waugh


#discretion #must #schoolmasters #temper

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.


Harvey Weinstein


#check #even #genealogy #going #got

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.


Harvey Weinstein


#always #bothered #bully #i #know