Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
There is a variety in tempers of good men.
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.
Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
Tempers flare at times. That's what good teams do: they react to things and go out there and leave it all on the field.
My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.