Anger Quotations | Page 4

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.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

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.

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.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

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?'

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

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.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

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.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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.

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a combination of anger, certainly confusion, and just tremendous sadness.

We appreciate the anger. We're not any happier than they are.

Where Tony Blair is, is propping up Bush in the continuation of oppression and injustice in the Middle East that is feeding the anger of the world.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.

What makes BPD different from any other personality disorder is that your anger and impulsiveness -- acting out, kicking over a chair -- only happens when you're dealing with people you really love. If it's somebody you don't care about, who cares?

With my mouth I speak slander, day and night. I spy on the houses of others - I am such a wretched low-life! Unfulfilled sexual desire and unresolved anger dwell in my body, like the outcasts who cremate the dead. I live as a wild hunter, O Creator!

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

We've urged the government of Denmark to take necessary steps to stop recurrence of such heinous act. We also requested them to tender apology to diffuse the sense of insult and anger created following the incident.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

He who angers you conquers you.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

Angry people are not always wise.

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.

There are some people that absolutely denied they had cancer. Some had a lot of anger.

There are feelings within the families and survivors group that are very difficult for the members of that group to deal with. There is, as you would expect, anger as part of the grieving process and sometimes that anger is vented toward very innocent people,

We share their anger, but we are here to express that anger.

We really just want our son back. We've felt a lot of emotions in the past few days fear, anger and frustration but we really want to acknowledge the kindness of the people of Clarion and the hard work of Officer Peck.

We're as upset about the high price of gasoline as the customers are. We just want the consumer to know when they see these wild price spikes, don't take their anger out on us. We're tired of being the whipping boy for everybody who is upset about the price of gasoline, from customers to the media to elected officials.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

We have put aside our anger and disappointment and we are doing everything in our power to get back together.

There is a little bit of anger inside me, there's no question about that. I'm really excited to be here. And I can't wait for this race to begin.

We use the same general approach. We have to understand why he isn't coming to school and listen to what is coming between them as a person because some anger is directed at you or the school. Anger could be directed at another individual or a life situation. In order to make the student/parent relationship successful, the student must be in touch with his own pain, identity and change.

The best remedy for anger is delay.