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Anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die
Author:
Maya Angelou
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In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
Author:
Chen Yang
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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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.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Author:
Maxine Waters
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It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
Author:
William Ward
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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.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
Author:
Obie Trice
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Author:
G. Trevelyan
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I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
Author:
Boris Trajkovski
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Author:
J. Tolkien
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Author:
James Thurber
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Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Author:
Thucydides
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The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
Author:
Dave Thomas
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The anger of lovers renews their love.
Author:
Terence
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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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.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Author:
Benjamin Spock
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Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Author:
Robert South
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I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
Author:
David Soul
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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Author:
Beverly Sills
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When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
Author:
Andrew Shue
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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
Author:
Clare Short
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
Author:
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Author:
William Shenstone
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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.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Author:
Adam Sedgwick
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
Author:
Richard Savage
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When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
Author:
Richard Savage
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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.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Author:
Sallust
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Author:
Sallust
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Author:
Saint Sales
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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
Author:
Mickey Rourke
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So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
Author:
Diana Ross
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Your anger is a gift.
Author:
Zack Rocha
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With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
Author:
John Robinson
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I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
Author:
Jason Ritter
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Author:
James Riley
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I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
Author:
Donna Rice
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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Author:
Matthew Prior
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I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
Author:
Lisa Presley
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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.
Author:
Petrarch
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Author:
Pope Paul VI
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Author:
Ovid
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Author:
Ovid
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Author:
Tatum O'Neal
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
Author:
Bruce Nauman
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I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Author:
Mike Myers
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
Author:
Edmund Muskie
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Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.
Author:
Thylias Moss
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It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
Author:
Rebecca Mornay
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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.
Author:
Hannah More
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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.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Author:
Carmen Miranda
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Author:
Alice Miller
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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.
Author:
Peter McWilliams
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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.
Author:
Paul McCartney
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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.
Author:
W. Maugham
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The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Author:
Nigel Mansell
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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
Author:
Blanche Lincoln
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I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
Author:
Joe Lieberman
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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.
Author:
Monica Lewinsky
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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.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.
Author:
Tom Lantos
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Author:
Walter Landor
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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.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Author:
Milan Kundera
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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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.
Author:
Nicole Kidman
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I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
Author:
John Kerry
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It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
Author:
Janos Kadar
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
Author:
Eddie Johnson
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The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Author:
Bede Jarrett
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Author:
Vanilla Ice
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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.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Author:
Zora Hurston
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Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Author:
Horace
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Author:
Horace
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Anger is a short madness.
Author:
Horace
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My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
Author:
Gregory Hines
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Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
Author:
Lord Halifax
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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Author:
Edward Halifax
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Author:
Edward Hale
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Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
Author:
Tony Greig
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I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
Author:
Danny Glover
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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
Author:
Robin Gibb
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Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Author:
Willard Gaylin
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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.
Author:
Mary Garden
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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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.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Author:
Indira Gandhi
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Author:
Nancy Friday
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Author:
Ford Frick
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
Author:
Marie France
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Author:
B. Forbes
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My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
Author:
Roberta Flack
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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.
Author:
Epictetus
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Author:
George Eliot
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Author:
John Dryden
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Author:
John Dryden
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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.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
Author:
Ani DiFranco
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Author:
Barbara Deming
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I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
Author:
Christopher Darden
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I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Author:
Dick Dale
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Author:
George Curtis
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I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Author:
Jon Crosby
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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.
Author:
Courteney Cox
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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.
Author:
Confucius
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Author:
Confucius
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For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Author:
Paula Cole
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Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.
Author:
Roger Clemens
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Hatred is settled anger.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.
Author:
Dominic Chianese
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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
Author:
M. Casey
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Author:
Caleb Carr
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Author:
Naomi Campbell
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Author:
Abraham Cahan
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I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
Author:
Yancy Butler
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
Author:
Wilfred Burchett
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Author:
Buddha
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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.
Author:
Buddha
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Author:
Buddha
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I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.
Author:
John Buchanan
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Author:
Terry Brooks
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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.
Author:
Charles Bronson
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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.
Author:
Allen Boyd
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Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
Author:
Chastity Bono
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Author:
Alan Bleasdale
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Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
Author:
Mary Blakely
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At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Author:
Jacqueline Bisset
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Author:
Sarah Bernhardt
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As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
Author:
Shelley Berman
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Author:
Martha Beck
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
Author:
Henry Bates
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Author:
Kevin Bacon
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Author:
Barbara Angelis
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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
Author:
Bill Alexander
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
Author:
Alan Alda
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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Author:
Akhenaton
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
Author:
Edward Abbey
