Famous Quotes
- Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Anger
- Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
- John Dryden on Anger
- Anger's not a good emotion.
- Lincoln Chafee on Anger
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Anger
- Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Anger
- Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
- Joanna Southcott on Anger
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
- Shelley Berman on Anger
- As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
- Adam Sedgwick on Anger
- As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
- Rodney King on Anger
- As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
- Robin Gibb on Anger
- At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
- Jacqueline Bisset on Anger
- Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
- Abraham Cahan on Anger
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas A Kempis on Anger
- Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
- Nancy Friday on Anger
- Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
- Sigmar Gabriel on Anger
- Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
- Francis Quarles on Anger
- Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
- Maya Angelou on Anger
- Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
- Paddy Ashdown on Anger
- But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
- Eduard Shevardnadze on Anger
- But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
- Ellen Barkin on Anger
- Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
- Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
- Robert Quillen on Anger
- Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
- J. R. R. Tolkien on Anger
- Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
- Richard M. Nixon on Anger
- Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
- Benjamin Spock on Anger
- Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
- Alfred A. Montapert on Anger
- Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
- Roger Clemens on Anger
- Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
- Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
- Roseanne Barr on Anger
- Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
- Willard Gaylin on Anger
- Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
- Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
- Marie De France on Anger
- Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
- Matthew Prior on Anger
- Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
- Edward Albert on Anger
- Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
- For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.
- Kelly McGillis on Anger
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Anger
- For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
- Paula Cole on Anger
- Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More on Anger
- Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
- Bruce Nauman on Anger
- Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
- Dalai Lama on Anger
- Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
- Alice Duer Miller on Anger
- George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
- Paul McCartney on Anger
- Get mad, then get over it.
- Colin Powell on Anger
- Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
- Carl Hiaasen on Anger
- Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
- Zora Neale Hurston on Anger
- Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
- Gary Oldman on Anger
- Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams on Anger
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