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


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


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


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


"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again."


"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important."


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


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


"I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment."
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