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I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; — Leo Tolstoy

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper. — Mardy Grothe

I don't have a problem with my temper. — Tommy Lee

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams

Temper your future actions. — Tom DeLay

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. — Neville Cardus

I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit — Elizabeth Taylor

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts. — Ezra Taft Benson

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. — Will Oldham

I still have a temper, I suppose. — John Malkovich

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. — John Milton

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it. — Jude Morgan

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.'

'Temper, you mean.'

'No, temperature. It's getting chilly. — Steven Erikson

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Why should I be scared of an oversized bat who likes to throw temper tantrums? — Sarah J. Maas

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. — Louis D. Brandeis

Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; — Jane Austen

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

Abstinence is easier than temperance. — Seneca The Younger

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. — Alain De Botton

Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions? — R.A. Salvatore

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

Your psychotic behavior and constant temper tantrums intrigue me. — Coco J. Ginger

Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king. — Mark Lawrence

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. — Horace

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper. — Julie Delpy

When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself. — Robyn Carr

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Kristin Cashore

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. — James Lee Burke

David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks. — Dorothea Benton Frank

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it. — Charlaine Harris

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. — Donna Tartt

You're in fine temper," Raffin said.
"Your hair is blue," she snapped back. — Kristin Cashore

Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute. — Mia James

I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it. — Julian Lennon

You've got a bit of a temper, don't you? — Stephenie Meyer

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life? — Ben Carson

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes. — Mark V. Hurd

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. — Joseph Joubert

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper. — Barbara Kingsolver

She hadn't expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper. — Kristin Cashore

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it. — E. M. Forster

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them. — Helen Reddy

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself - on the mat as well as in life. — Joe Hyams

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion. — Michael Bloomberg

The one who can't restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -Horace — Genna Rulon

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism. — Edith Hamilton

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving

17 A man of c quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly, — Anonymous

to understand him, the temper and the challenge, the brokenness and the stubbornness, — Lisa-Jo Baker

The crash sliced through my head; it left me gasping and shivering, like all the other times I let my temper out, but the voices stopped. — Rosamund Hodge

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen. — Gordon B. Hinckley

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. — Desi Arnaz

Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion. — Kate Morton

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. — Harriet Martineau

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. — Pietro Aretino

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few. — Mary Shelley

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me. — Sean Murphy

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. — Lewis B. Smedes

There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this. — A.W. Tozer

People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves. — George Eliot

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. — Lord Chesterfield

To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment. — Saul Bellow

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis

The wise man never loses his temper. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. — Marilyn Manson

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. — George Eliot

No, I don't have a problem with my temper. — Tommy Lee

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am about to lose my temper,'
'I look too cute for that.'
'Stop daydreaming. — Rida Altaf

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons. — Alex Ferguson

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good. — Andrew Lau

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. — Kahlil Gibran

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. — Hannah More

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. — Rumi

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside ... that's how your temper will cool down. — Pema Chodron

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

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali

A person's fate is their own temper. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. — Louis XIV

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice. — Lord Acton

Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way". — Euripides

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. — Benjamin Franklin

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. — Cassandra Clare

Nik gripped his fork so tightly his knuckles turned white. His temper flared up like a beast inside him, clawing at the walls of its fleshy prison. — Quinn Anderson

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations. — Franz Grillparzer

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace. — Josh McDowell