Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

John Dryden

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

John Lyly

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

The mortal beings are held in the power of sexual desire, anger and emotional attachment; they have forgotten the Lord, the Immortal Form.

Janet Fitch

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

They had the wrong impression of me. The anger was coming from what they heard.

Peter Blake

This book is not written in anger. It is written in fury.

For many people, especially in the urban areas, life has become unaffordable and unbearable and these people are waiting to vent their anger through mass demonstrations.

Johnny Ramone

For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

It's not the bite of the snake that kills you, it's the poison left behind.

There were probably five investigators that were working on this case and the frustration and anger was as much as I've ever seen. We've all got children. It makes you angry.

There's a lot of confusion. There's a lot frustration and anger.

Anthony Zinni

It might be interesting to wonder why all the generals see it in the same way, and all those, who never fired a shot in anger and really held back to go to war, see it in a different way. That's usually the way it is in history.

It's a journey from pariah to the establishment. There's less anger and bitterness and more responsibility.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

Chuck D.

This kind of thing can just bring out all the resentment and anger from one party to another because they feel one of their own people has been violated. It has not been easy for him.

They're pretty standard life events. If people are familiar with triggers that provoke their anger, they are in a better place to do something different.

There's a sense that this is not supposed to happen in the U.S. And that provokes anger and anxiety not only in the Gulf Coast but around the country.

There's anger. . .but I would say sadness is the overwhelming (emotion).

Rod Paige

It was a source of a good deal of bitterness, anger, frustration that we were not quite as worthy as others,

Bertrand Russell

It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go

It's a bursting of the dam in some ways of the frustration and anger, not only with the policies but with the way that Mr Rumsfeld has interacted with people, the disrespect he has shown to the military.

It's a bunch of feelings mixed together, but now I'd say it's more anger than anything.

Charles Krauthammer

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

Crystal Bowersox

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

Trent Reznor

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.

Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anger is practical awkwardness.

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

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.

Mel Gibson

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

A. J. Liebling

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Arundhati Roy

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.