Anger Quotes - Page 36

• In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

  Bill Vaughan

  Communication, Doors, Body

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• we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Growing Up, Tree, Cracks

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

  Melody Beattie

  Warning, Problem, Signals

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.60, Hazelden Publishing

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• anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Jealousy, Heart, Nerves

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

  Hannah More

  Character, People, Giving

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.106

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Space, Want

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Food, Thinking, Gambling

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

  John F. Kerry

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• 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.

  Nicole Kidman

  Forgiveness, Children, Together

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• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Character, Acceptance

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

  Rodney King

  Stress, People, Forgiving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Society, Alive, Assumption

  In Michael Holroyd 'Hugh Kingsmill' (1964)

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• I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

  Keira Knightley

  Jealousy, Fake People, Thinking

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• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Brain, Shows

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• All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

  Jessica Lange

  Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  Jack Layton

  Love, Inspirational, Hope

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Dark, Society

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

  A. J. Liebling

  Society, Roles, Making Money

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• When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Wells

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• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Political, World, Firsts

  "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1948.

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• I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

  Theresa May

  Issues, Feels, Particular

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Paul McCartney

  Finding The One, Guitar, Findings

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• The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

  Reba McEntire

  Light, Long, Shining

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