Quotes of: Temperament Keyword

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

Neil Peart

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Thomas Carlyle

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Nancy Gibbs

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Emmeline Pankhurst

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

E. M. Forster

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Hector Hugh Munro

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

Wole Soyinka

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Tryon Edwards

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

Jonathan Haidt

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

Edmund Crispin

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Juliana Hatfield

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

Seamus Heaney

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Bill Brandt

Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just falls over everyone.

Chad Coleman

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

James Dobson