Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Jada Smith

I find that the music expresses a lot of different things, not just anger. It's extreme. There's no gray area. Whatever emotion you choose to express in the music, it's gonna be intense.

Eric Williams

I feel that if we do not help people, you breed anger and contempt.

I have been pushed to anger by the pervasive moral and ethical minimalism of this White House,

Bobby Hull

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Edmund Muskie

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

We understand their pain, but Muslims should channel their anger not by burning and pillaging, but by following the example of Prophet Muhammad himself, who urged restraint and calmness in the wake of provocation.

Brian Posehn

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Caleb Carr

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

Gary Zukav

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Ellen Willis

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

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

Jack Canfield

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Albert Camus

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Albert Camus

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

D. H. Lawrence

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Cullen Hightower

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

Clare Short

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

Clarence Darrow

To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation.

Courteney Cox

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Christopher Paolini

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

Anne Bradstreet

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Ally Condie

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...

Anne Sexton

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

Andre Maurois

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Alice Miller

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

Alice Childress

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.