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  • There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

    Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.31, Penguin
  • You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

    Country   War   Temper  
    "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.
  • Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

    Vampire   Murder   Grudge  
    Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
  • When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

  • I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

    American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
  • I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

    Strong   Winning   Needs  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  • Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak.

    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

    Brother   Blood   Lust  
  • There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

    Humble   People   Honor  
    "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 71,
  • Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

    Tea   Temper   Effects  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.383, Penguin
  • Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto.

  • A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  • I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

    Brother   Scotch   Half  
  • I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

    Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.69, Taylor Trade Publications
  • Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

    Jace   Said   Temper  
    Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
  • Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.

    Mother   Father   Ideas  
  • Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

    Men   Poison   Bitter  
    Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.243
  • I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.

    Morning   Two   Insane  
  • I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit

  • The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

    Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape
  • If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

    Men   Rivers   Perfect  
  • I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

    Anger   Safety   Doe  
    Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951
  • I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

    Hurt   Men   Might  
  • As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

  • In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

    Basketball   Dad   School  
  • The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity as inferior to the Spaniards as children are to adults and women are to men, there being as much difference between them as that between wild and cruel and very merciful persons, the prodigiously intemperate and the continent and tempered, and I daresay from apes to men

  • Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever...I hope.

    Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.197, Penguin
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