“I believe he is temperamentally and intellectually inclined to stick to the facts and the law in cases that will come before him on the high court, and that he will refrain from attempting to legislate from the bench,”
Wayne Allard
“[It was overcast and chilly on that Wednesday afternoon, and the temperamental Williams was in a cantankerous mood as he chased away panting writers and photographers before the game. After one cameraman tried to snap him in the clubhouse, Ed Linn wrote in his 1993 biography,] Hitter, ... Get one like this!”
Ted Williams
“I think, myself, it is harder for two artists, both ambitious, both temperamental, both perhaps egotistical, to jog along equably in the necessarily restraining atmosphere of a double harness.”
Conrad Veidt
“I'm just not temperamentally suited to it,”
Maureen Dowd
“Well, first you must be temperamentally suited, and there must be constant adjustment and give and take. I mean no marriages are made in heaven.”
Lee Kuan Yew
“[Singer Marian Anderson was investigated in 1958 when the State Department considered her for] a top level position. ... typical temperamental musician.”
Paul Robeson
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Thomas Jefferson
