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Anger Quotes

"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."

Horace, Roman Poet

Anger, Men, Lawyers, Words

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"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

Anger, Greed, Lust, Saudiarabian

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"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Anger, Consequences

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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."

Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian Politician

Anger, Thought, Control, State

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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!"

Carmen Miranda, Portuguese Musician

Anger, Time, Wedding, Argument

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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."

Nicole Kidman, Australian Actress

Anger, Forgiveness, Children, Help

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"I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed."

Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian Statesman

Anger, Accusations, Succeed

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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."

Wilfred Burchett, Australian Journalist

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"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."

Alice Duer Miller, American Poet

Anger, Forgiveness, Faces

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"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

Horace, Roman Poet

Anger, Temper, Will

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"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Anger, Kindness, Love, Consideration

"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound."

Ford Frick, American Journalist

Anger, Decision, Sound, Temper

"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."

Roberta Flack, American Musician

Anger, Music, Hope, Today

"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, French Actress

Anger, Actor, Being, Feeling

"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference."

Philip Stanhope, British Statesman

Anger, Indifference

"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."

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

Anger, Fear, Aggression

"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."

Dave Thomas, American Businessman

Anger, Men, Women, Being

"The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger."

Henry Walter Bates, English Environmentalist

Anger, Poor, Trouble

"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"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."

Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician

Anger, Exaggeration

"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."

Frank Luntz, American Politician

Anger, People, Communication

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Pope Paul VI, Italian Clergyman

"What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive."

Jay Alan Sekulow, American Lawyer

Anger, Positive, Emotion, Protest

"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."

Indira Gandhi, Indian Statesman

Anger, Argument

"The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

Anger, Delusion, Greed, Infinite

"Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate."

Edward Albert, American Actor

Anger, Fear, Enemy, Hate

"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

"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."

Geoffrey Rush, Australian Actor

Anger, Fans, Reputation

"I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through."

Michael Richards, American Actor

Anger, People, Hate

"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."

Rebecca De Mornay, American Actress

Anger, Men, Women, People

"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

"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."

Shelley Berman, American Comedian

Anger, Music, Sex, Culture

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Barbara de Angelis, American Writer

Anger, Heart, Past, Present

"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, American Actor

Anger, Age, Feelings, Expression

"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

Anger, Life, Control, Day

"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."

Diana Ross, American Actress

Anger, Work, Emotions

"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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

Alan Bleasdale, British Dramatist

Anger, Nature, Man

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Anger, Mind, Wind

"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."

Joanna Southcott, English Celebrity

Anger, Father, Night

"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."

Gregory Hines, American Actor

Anger, Dream, Character, Abuse

"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."

M. Kathleen Casey, American Judge

Anger, Consistency, Hatred, May

"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha, Indian Leader

"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."

Mark Twain, American Author

"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Anger, Forget, Lies, Man

"Hatred is inveterate anger."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

"I'm going to gut you like a fish."

Mike Tyson, American Athlete

"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, English Actor

Anger, Family, Money, Fire

"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."

Nicholas D. Kristof, American Writer

Anger, Medical, Women, Horror

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