#temper

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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#hypocrisy #inconsistancy #principles #temperament #hypocrisy

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.


Joseph Livesey


#alcohol #ale #bread #food #nourishment

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not.


Mary Stanton


#groveling #hot-temper #lawyer #school #sisters

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.


Maureen Forrester


#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#certainly #due #failed #i #imply

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.


Rob Lowe


#always #father #fell #felt #i

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.


Charles Perrault


#best #creature #daughter #gentleman #goodness

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.


William James


#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.


Arthur Keith


#drunkard #man #one thing #quite #temperate

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.


Thomas Keneally


#being #believe #came #did #eccentric