Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hurt

The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.

Brian Billick

The frustration, the angst -- anger, if you will -- of the fans right now is matched only by the coaches and the players and the organization. It's very frustrating, very angering to not play better, to not do a couple of those things that you have to win in a close game.

The frustration and anger is understandable and justifiable.

Colum McCann

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.

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.

Robert Quillen

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Richard M. Nixon

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.