If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.
My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
Nature never intended me to be a partisan leader ... Every instinct of mine would indicate that I was meant to be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, or even a bishop, rather than the leader of a revolution.
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.
Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.
Even people who vote on the issues are moved by temperament, moved by style, moved by an assessment of “what kind of person if this?”
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.
I guess I found the life as a musician too counterproductive, as so much time was spent in tour buses & remote hotel rooms. As I am moderately hyperactive, this didn't suit my temper.
I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.
I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.
If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.
