Anger Quotes - Page 36

• Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Water, Rage, Fishes

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Invention, Fury

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Who can describe
  Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
  Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
  Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
  The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

  Thomas Otway

  Women, Hypocrisy, Mind

  Thomas Otway (1812). “The Works of Thomas Otway: Consisting of His Plays, Poems, and Letters”, p.156

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• Anger assists hands however weak.
  [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]

  Ovid

  Hands, Ira, Weak

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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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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Peace, World Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Forgiveness, Annoying, Annoyance

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• Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Mean, Thinking

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• In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hatred, Feelings, Politics

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• Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

  James A. Baldwin

  Argument, Rage, Difficulty

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• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, 4th Of July, Forgiving

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Powerful, Fire

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• In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Angel, Winning

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• It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Saint, Excess, Kind

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• Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

  Gary Barlow

  Picnics, Annoying, Rage

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• In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

  John Lyly

  Shadow, Substance, Arguing

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.20, Psychology Press

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• The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

  Nigel Mansell

  Athlete, Commitment, Winning

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• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Suicidal, House

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