Top 1200 Short Temper Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

You've got a bit of a temper, don't you?

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

I do miss my hair because I used to do so much stuff with it, but I do like different levels of short. I had a super short pixie before, and I loved it.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

I've always had a bit of a temper.

I wouldn't say I have a bad temper.

A man's fate is his own temper.

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

I have a hell-fire temper.

Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.

It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

I always say I'm not going to care this time, but I always do. Like, I did one this season called Tax Man with Martin Short, which was like, "Are you kidding me? Doing a pilot with Martin Short? Like, career high." And I just assumed, because it's Martin Short, like, "How are they not going to pick that up?" But they didn't.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I lost my temper on stage.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Temper justice with mercy.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.

Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you can stand your foot in a vise for a while if you know it's going to be released soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Temper your future actions.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.

I'm not going to have temper tantrums anymore.

Good temper is an estate for life.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form.

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

A person's fate is their own temper.

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

I've repeatedly tried to curb my temper.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.