Quotes and Sayings About Anger
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
-- A. J. Liebling -
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
-- Abu Bakr -
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In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
-- Al Roker -
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 -
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
-- Alan Bleasdale -
We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
-- Alanis MorissetteSource : Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.
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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.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
-- Albert Camus -
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
-- Albert Einstein -
Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.
-- Alfred Bester -
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I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
-- Alice Childress -
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
-- Alice Miller -
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.
-- Alice Miller -
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
-- Allen Boyd -
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It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
-- Ally CondieSource : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
-- Alvin TofflerSource : "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.
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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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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
-- Anais Nin -
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.
-- Andre Maurois -
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
-- Andrew Shue -
I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
-- Annabella Sciorra -
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
-- Anne BradstreetSource : Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Press
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Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
-- AntisthenesSource : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.
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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.
-- Aristotle -
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
-- Aristotle -
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.
-- Aristotle