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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!"


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."


"I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people."
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