#temper

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.


Honore de Balzac


#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.


Ted Kotcheff


#being #i #reputation #temperamental

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.


John Keats


#come #i #i am #kick #scarcely

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.


James Gould Cozzens


#any #anything #drain #other #outside

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.


Godfried Danneels


#been #before #feel #first #i

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.


Martin Fleischmann


#been #disintegration #experiment #fact #found

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.


Martin Fleischmann


#always #because #cannot #cells #could

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.


Janis Ian


#ago #asking #back #because #child

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.


Calamity Jane


#became #father #girl #i #image

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.


Anthony Trollope


#company #crowd #digestion #even #exercised