Orson Scott Card Quotes

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

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Anger makes people stupid.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I don't think I get angry.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.