Top 1200 Short Temper Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I was always übersexual...I was always wearing the smallest clothes I could find. I would go to the mall like that — in a short, short skirt and a giant wedge heel. That's what you do when you're a teenage girl in a small town.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.

Even during my short film days, I approached theatres with the idea of playing them during the interval. They thought it was problematic to screen an offbeat short film in between a commercial film.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

I have a strange - because there's no other way probably of describing it - uh, temper. I'm a very difficult taskmaster. I don't wait.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

Do I ever lose my temper? Sure, I do it all the time - just ask my wife, she will tell you.

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

I've worked hard with my body, just in case someone needs me to play third or short. I'm happy to go back to short, it's my natural position. I'm here to help and here to do whatever the manager wants me to do.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.

I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends! Alison [McGhee] and I look very much like, I was going to say Bink and Gollie, but I meant Mutt and Jeff. We look ridiculous when we walk down the street together, because she's so tall and I'm so short. But yes, tall people and short people can, and should be, friends. I, personally, like being short. I think it makes things easier.