Tempered People Quotes

#1. Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood-thirsty when in a boat.

Jerome K. Jerome

#3. The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

Paul Theroux

#4. The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

David Letterman

#5. The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Addison Mizner

#6. I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

James Hillman

#7. If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Margaret Deland

#9. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

Susan May Warren

#10. Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William Ewart Gladstone

#11. People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.

George MacDonald

#12. When you read this you may already have met Hermes. In case you haven't, I'll add that he is a dog. But don't worry. he is very good-tempered - and moreover, a good deal more intelligent than a lot of people. In any event he never tries to give the impression of being cleverer than he is.

Jostein Gaarder

#13. People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

Eva Le Gallienne

#14. I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

Alexandra Kollontai

#15. You mean to say a family of hot-tempered Mafia people are all cosying up with each other on a Saturday night to sit down and watch a movie about a family of hot-tempered Mafia people...? Is that really what you're telling me?

Catherine Doyle

#16. Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.

Edward Kitsis

#17. You're not suited for this Merripen. You can't hold your liquor worth a damn. And unlike people such as me, who become quite amicable when they drink, you turn into a vile-tempered troll." Leo paused considering how best to provoke him. "Liquor brings out one's true inner nature, they say.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

Christopher Hitchens

#19. I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. Nobody sits down and says, 'Well, I'm going to write a bad book.' They sit down to write a great book, but it doesn't always turn out like that. The writer may do his best and still write a so-so book, and other times, it just flows easily. But I don't know how you can control that.

Gilbert Morris

#21. I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

Paul Lansky

#22. My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Billy Corgan

#23. And vinegar that makes them sour - and camomile that makes them bitter - and - and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know -

Lewis Carroll

#24. I know some people with such bad tempers that, even if they accidentally walked into a tree branch, they will chop the whole tree down.

Anthony Liccione

#25. Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

Alison Jackson

#26. Suffering did different things to different people ... Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

Naomi Ragen

#27. People often brag about being "hot-tempered" or "fiery" when a more accurate description would be: "I stopped developing emotionally when I was a small child and therefore never learned to control my tantrums.

Rosie Blythe

#28. Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

Ashton Kutcher

#29. 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

#30. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit.

Norman Vincent Peale

#32. Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

Ray Charles

#33. Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

Saadi

#34. Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies.

Matt Chandler

#35. Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Gilbert Highet

#36. When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.

Summer Sanders