#temper

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Dan moans behind me, reminding her of the problem. She straightens in fear at the sound of his voice, peers over my shoulder at the chunk of bloody beef that is Dan Sikorsky. She looks slowly from him to me. “What did you do?” I duck my head, embarrassed. “I sort of lost my temper.


Jasinda Wilder


#falling #falling-into-you #funny #haha #jasinda-wilder

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.


William Warburton


#enthusiasm #got #imagination #judgment #mind

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.


Colin Wilson


#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.


Charlotte Brontë


#faults #nature #people #personality #predilection

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.


Anne Brontë


#children #control #evil #excess #moderation

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.


Joseph Addison


#greatest weakness #human #human nature #inconsistency #mutability

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.


Thomas Aquinas


#disposition #mind #passion #simply #temperance

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

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.


Montserrat Caballe


#give #give me #impossible #me #moment

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.


John Burns


#cardinal #cleanliness #drink #i #impressed