Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Puzo

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Nicholas Sparks

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

Neal A. Maxwell

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

Neal A. Maxwell

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

Publilius Syrus

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

Joseph Stalin

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Laurence Steinberg

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Omar N. Bradley

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Margaret Deland

anger as well as love casts out fear ...

Margaret Deland

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Pete Townshend

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Plutarch

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

Plutarch

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Plutarch

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Plutarch

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Plutarch

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Plutarch

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Phillips Brooks

Anger is self-immolation.

Mickey Kaus

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Mother Teresa

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

Mother Teresa

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

Pearl S. Buck

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

Randolph Bourne

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Marcus Aurelius

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Thomas a Kempis

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Tatum O'Neal

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

John Chancellor

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

Phyllis Bottome

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

Phyllis Diller

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.