Pastoral Resources

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Music inflames temperament.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.