Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Jim Butcher

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

Howard Staunton

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

Honore de Balzac

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: / And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Paul Gray

He offers the never-never land of convenient cliches. a world where statesmen say, "We've not heard the end of this," where people turn "scarlet with anger," where the price of gold goes "sky-high" and where the unsuspecting outsider "little knew what fate had in store for him.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Great anger is more destructive than the sword

Ivan Turgenev

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If we all got angry together something might be done.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe...

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Horace Walpole

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

Horace

Anger is a short madness.

Horace

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Homer

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.

If he were a guy in jail, nobody would think anything of it. He was able to channel that energy, that could have been turned into anger, instead into enthusiasm so other children don't have to go through the same thing he did.

Jack Kornfield

If grief or anger arises,Let there be grief or anger.This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha.It is the universe offering all thingsto awaken and open our heart.

Mike Nichols

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

How I feel is just a lot of anger and sadness and motivation at the same time. We just lost four good seniors, and we're going to miss them a lot. But everybody has to stay strong. Next year, we're going to come back and we're going to bring it.

Tim O'Brien

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

Jose Guillen

I don't like it, I let my anger come out, I did whatever I need to do.

Kofi Annan

Collective punishment has cast a pall of anger and despair over the already tense occupied territories,

Jim Webb

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.

Cecilia Munoz

The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.

Common

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Chris Crutcher

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

Barack Obama

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.