A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
I regard myself as a religious. . . the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.
I rarely lose my temper anymore.
I don't have a problem with my temper.
She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.
You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper.
Never lose your temper, except intentionally.
Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.