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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!"


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self."


"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 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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