Outburst Quotes

• Music is an outburst of the soul.

  Frederick Delius

  Life, Music, Art

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

  Kirby Larson

  Nerves, Calm, Occasional

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.54, Yearling

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• Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

  Sylvia Porter

  Relationship, Silence, Flags

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• It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

  Beth Henley

  Character, Emotional, Interesting

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. September 30, 2002.

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• Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

  Erma Bombeck

  Wonderful, Surprise, Spontaneity

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• When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

  Margery Allingham

  Inspirational, Passion, Violent

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  David Harvey

  Wall, Differences, Political

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• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Heart, Names

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

  Georgie Fame

  War, Rocks, Years

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• My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

  Christian Louboutin

  Jobs, Shoes, Design

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• 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

  Anger, Emotional, Long

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• Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

  Ida B. Wells

  Country, Lynching, Insane

  "Crime and Punishment in America". Book by David B. Wolcott and Tom Head, p. 144, 2010.

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• A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military, War, Planning

  Address before the National Association of Manufacturers, New York City, December 8, 1967.

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• One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Tiny, Causes

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• Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Impact, Connections, Negative

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.244, Macmillan

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Emotional, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

  William Goldman

  Mean, Emotional, Would Be

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

  Adam Hochschild

  Silence, Trying, Events

  Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

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• I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

  Alice Winocour

  War, Reality, Soldier

  "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.

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• To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

  Andre Gide

  Philosophical, Soul, Awkward

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• Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Roots, Self, African American

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.382, Penguin

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• Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair was mussed. He interrupted everybody with outbursts of laughter as if he were drunk. But he wasn’t drunk. He was just happy for some mysterious reason, and he was also a genius – the first I had ever met

  Marilyn

  Laughter, Men, Hair

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• Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Order, Scary, Sound

  "Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator". Interview with Mary Ann Akers, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

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