(204 quotes found)
“I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.”
Tim Robbins
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature”
Joseph Addison
“I try to take control out there. If someone's losing their temper, I try to get them back in line and focused back on the game instead of what the fans are hollering or what the other team's saying.”
Clay Oney
“He's my backbone. He's taught me a lot. For starters, he tempered me down.”
Kareena Kapoor
“temper your future actions.”
Tom DeLay
“Frank Miller was worried it would be tempered down; it wouldn't be quite what he originally intended. Robert Rodriguez went to him and said, 'I'm going to be incredibly faithful to your original material,' shot a five-minute test. Frank said, 'I'm in. Let's do it.'”
Clive Owen
“If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.”
Joseph Farrell
“A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use”
Washington Irving
“Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.”
William James
“He's trying to use the strategy of Greenspan-speak - to temper homebuyers' euphoria.”
Jonathan Miller