anger
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘anger’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“A lot of my humor does come from anger. It’s like, you’re not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.” -Courteney Cox
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“President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he’s offering is more of the same. That’s not good. Look at the economy. It’s stagnating. And so, what they’re now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.” -Paul Ryan
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“To talk about balance, it’s easier to talk about what’s out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there’s disease, you’re out of balance, whether it’s jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.” -Ricky Williams
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“People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.” -Philip Roth
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“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.” -Indira Gandhi
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“All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.” -Wilson Mizner
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“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
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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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“I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.” -Amy Winehouse
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“I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.” -Willie Nelson
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“Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“The fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.” -Charles Bronson
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“Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.” -Luke Ford
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“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.” -Abraham Cahan
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“People are always angry at America. They’re absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“You’ve just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn’t help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it’s easy to say and harder to do.” -Nicole Kidman
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“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
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“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.” -Karl A. Menninger
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“The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.” -Monica Lewinsky
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“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.” -Petrarch
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“Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.” -Abu Bakr
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“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
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“It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’” -Colin Powell
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“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.” -Alice Duer Miller
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“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.” -Carl Sandburg
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” -Jack Layton
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“I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.” -Yoko Ono
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“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
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“I’m not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.” -Samuel L. Jackson
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“Hatred is settled anger.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“There’s a lot of bitterness, there’s a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.” -Allen Boyd
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“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.” -Donald Trump
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“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.” -Confucius
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“There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.” -Wayne Dyer
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“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” -Phyllis Diller
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“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” -Lee Iacocca
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“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” -Joan Lunden
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“Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.” -Naomi Campbell
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“I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don’t think people are ready for the message that I’m delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.” -Charlie Sheen
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“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.” -William Arthur Ward
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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” -Saint Augustine
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“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.” -Edward Abbey
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“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.” -Elie Wiesel
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“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.” -Terry Brooks
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“The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.” -Bodhidharma
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“I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.” -Keira Knightley
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” -Buddha
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“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.” -William Congreve
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“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.” -Thomas Fuller
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“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” -George Jean Nathan
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“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.” -Austin O’Malley
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“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.” -Frank Herbert
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“The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” -Bede Jarrett
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“A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.” -Mary Garden
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.” -Robert Quillen
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“Expressing anger is a form of public littering.” -Willard Gaylin
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“I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.” -Frank Moore Colby
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“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” -Hannah More
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“Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.” -Dalai Lama
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“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” -George Eliot
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“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” -Epictetus
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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” -Francis Bacon
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“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“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
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“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” -Sydney J. Harris
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“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” -James Fallows
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“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber
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“One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.” -William Butler Yeats
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“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.” -John Ruskin
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“When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.” -Mark Twain
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” -James Russell Lowell
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“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.” -Christopher Morley
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“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” -Louis L’Amour
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“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.” -Plato
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“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
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“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” -Albert Einstein
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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” -Maya Angelou
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