Tantrums Quotes

• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  Taylor Swift

  Crazy, Giving, Silence

  "Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

  Daniel Handler

  Fun, Anger, May

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• Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

  W. H. Auden

  Sensual, Wish, Desire

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• Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Achievement, Boss

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• Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Regret, War, Ignorance

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

  James Lee Burke

  Mind, Age, Care

  Interview with April Henry, www.aprilhenrymysteries.com. 1999.

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• At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Struggle, Communication, Roots

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• TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

  Mary Schmich

  Moving, Tears, Gone

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• Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

  Breaux Greer

  Stuff, Starting, Temper Tantrums

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• There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Regret, Anger, Men

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• Don't be a baby about this. No tantrums.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

  Neil Finn

  Used

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• All sadness is a tantrum.

  Byron Katie

  Sadness

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2011

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• Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

  Pema Chodron

  Unique, Meditation, Together

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• We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen is an attempt to convey a message. Everything the child does says something to the person who is willing to take the time to listen carefully.

  Christopher Page

  Children, Communication, Sleep

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• I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Furniture, Persons

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• Regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Regret, Illumination

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Ems, Lines

  "From XLIII: An interview with Bill Parcells". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. January 31, 2009.

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• I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

  Pat Nixon

  Talking, Mad, Leave Me Alone

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• The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.

  Anna Kavan

  Fall, Boys, Men

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• Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

  Charles Addams

  Children, Feet, Dresses

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

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• At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

  Kristin Hannah

  Wall, Men, Breakfast

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.284, Ballantine Books

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• Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Mom, Long Ago, Honor

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

  Jenny Eclair

  Lying, Naps, Red

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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