#temper

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

The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#back #being #bust #careful #could

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#felicity #live #method #peace #pleasure

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me. ↗

— Susannah York

#because #hard #i #me #reign

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#every #experience #fruit #fully #garden

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. ↗

— David Letterman

#i #knew #met #people #tempered

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

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