#temper

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#acids #changed #food #high #need

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#lost #temper #truth

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. ↗

— Antisthenes

#dearly #enemy #friend #his #lost

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness #function #heart #regardless #temperature

She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood". ↗

— Marjorie Celona

#temper #woman #anger