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Anger Quotes


"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!"


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."


"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."


"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."


"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."


"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."



"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."


"I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage."



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


"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."


"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."


"Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance."



"I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love."


"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."


"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."


"People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world."


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


"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."


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



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


"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves."



"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."


"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."
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