Juliette Lewis Quotes

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

I have a long fuse.

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 have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

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.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

I'm not someone that's gonna get up in your face all the time and all that kind of stuff. I mean, I don't think I have a temper.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

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

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

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

A man's fate is his own temper.

WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE IT.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.