Graydon Carter Quotes

I sort of knew I was a bit of a drama queen. I always threw tantrums, so I knew I wasn't a normal child.

I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.

Arjun Reddy's fits of rage, his ill-tempered responses towards the girl he loves... I think we all have these dark areas in our personality.

I see so many people in our industry, in my own network, who throw little tantrums about things that they can't control.

When you're in high school, and you're trying to get the attention of a guy you like, sometimes you don't always make the best decisions.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.