305 private quotes tagged anger

“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.” — Indira Gandhi

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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.” — Matthew Prior

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“Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.” — Jane Goodall

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“Anger is a short madness.” — Horace

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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.” — Alan Alda

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“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” — Beverly Sills

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“Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“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.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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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.” — Gary Oldman

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“I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.” — Willie Nelson

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“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.” — Drew Barrymore

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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.” — Rowan Williams

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“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” — Joan Lunden

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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.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.” — Ovid

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“Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.” — Thucydides

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“I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.” — Amy Winehouse

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“The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.” — Publilius Syrus

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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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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.” — Kevin Bacon

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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.” — Wilson Mizner

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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.” — Mike Myers

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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.” — Sarah Bernhardt

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“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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