Famous Quotes & Sayings

The rumors are just running wild around here ... the latest set of allegations only reinforce the sense of history and anger about the racial issues involved. The president wanted people of this power who could come in and do an investigation and let the chips fall where they may.

George Galloway

These airplanes on 9-11 may have seemed to have come out of a clear blue sky but, in fact, these monstrous mosquitoes flew out of a swamp of bitterness and hatred and anger which exists in the Muslim world (because of) the injustice of western policy,

These were modest changes. We should have closed more. For all that anxiety, all that stress, all that anger - this is all we saved.

We were pretty much upset with the fact that they called us a reform team. We are not a reform team. We are a public high school. We were really upset coming into this game. We just knew that we were going to face them at 10 o'clock this morning and that we were going to take out our anger and frustration on them.

What the doctors don't tell you is after treatments, the emotions hit. You realize how severe it could have been. You have anxiety, anger and fear. You just realize how bad it could have been, that you could have died.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

The spectacle of a mayor and a governor throwing mud at each other while the city and the area were floundering was not a pretty one. That's another area where it's going to take some time and some historians to figure out whether he was let down by the government or not. On the other hand, his anger at those with a higher place on the hierarchy is an understandable one.

Richard Whately

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

Tryon Edwards

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Raymond Chandler

It is not a fragrant world.

Ovid

Anger assists hands however weak.

Paul McCartney

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Pietro Aretino

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Pietro Aretino

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Peter McWilliams

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.

Peter McWilliams

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.

Pete Townshend

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Plutarch

Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

Plutarch

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Plutarch

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Plutarch

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Plutarch

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Plutarch

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Phillips Brooks

Anger is self-immolation.

Mickey Kaus

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Rene Descartes

The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

Thomas Browne

There is another man within me that's angry with me.

Thomas S. Monson

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

Thomas S. Monson

To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry. I testify that such is possible.

Thomas S. Monson

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

Robert Lacey

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Roberta Flack

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.