Anger Quotes - Page 20

• An angry man is always a stupid man.

  Chinua Achebe

  Stupid, Men, Angry Man

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.27, Heinemann

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• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Peace

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• 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.

  Ally Condie

  Long, Mouths, Taste

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin

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• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Imagination, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Society, Needs

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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• I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

  Pete Townshend

  Proportion, Blur, Blanket

  "Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  "Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History". Arnold J. Toynbee's speech to the World Food Congress, January 9, 1963.

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• Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

  Donald Trump

  Dog, Hate, Heart

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• Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

  Bill Vaughan

  Animal, Men, Space

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Reading, Book

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Argument

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

  Rowan Williams

  Culture, Growing, Limits

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

  Amy Winehouse

  Fighting, Thinking, Famous Women

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• You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.

  John J. Geddes

  Distance, Hands, Use

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• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Long, Mind

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• I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  Jack Kingston

  Religious, Roots, Society

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• Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Needs, World, Lines

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• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Anxiety, Abiding

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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• Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

  William Penn

  Self, Lasts, Management

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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• Anger is loaded with information and energy.

  Audre Lorde

  Energy, Information, Loaded

  "The left needs to take a leaf out of Jesus' book - and get angry" by Steven W Thrasher, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2017.

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• Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason, Have ruin'd many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle, transitory gust Of gratified revenge, dooms us to pay With long repentance at a later day.

  Theognis of Megara

  Revenge, Passion, Long

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• You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications

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• Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Invention, Ovens

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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