Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Mark Twain

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear

Natalie Martinez

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

Laurence Yep

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Brandon Flowers

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Bob Hoskins

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

Gore Vidal

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

Carly Fiorina

I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

Samuel Butler

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Justin Trudeau

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Eddie Guerrero

Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

Alan Cohen

Anger is a call for awareness.

Lynn Coady

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

George Scott

When you see it after the fact that they actually had a machine-gun, and knowing what's happened at some other crossings in the past, there is a fear, a legitimate fear, and part of that is anger that nothing has been done, that nothing's taken place, and nothing has happened.

Aaron Lee

When you see him smile, you really don't know what he's gone through to get to that point emotionally and socially, because there was a lot of anger and disappointment. The most phenomenal thing about the whole story is he entered the University of Washington as a regular student. The basketball will take care of itself.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Nancy Gibbs

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

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

Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves

Saint Francis de Sales

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Martha Beck

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

Marlee Matlin

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

Orhan Pamuk

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

George Foreman

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

Tryon Edwards

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Willard Gaylin

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Ben Carson

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

Tasha Smith

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

Toks Olagundoye

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

A. J. Liebling

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.