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"Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around."

Jane Goodall on Anger

More quotes about Anger

  • "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned."

    Buddha 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."

    Aristotle on Anger

  • "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

    Mark Twain on Anger

  • "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

    Albert Einstein 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

More quotes by Jane Goodall

  • "Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."

  • "I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them."

  • "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth."

  • "My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl."

  • "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth."

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