Anger Quotes - Page 25

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to express it. The answer came more slowly: No one makes you angry. Anger, like love, is something you choose. Stunned, I sat down in the middle of the field I'd been walking through. I knew I needed to look within myself, let go of my anger and have a quiet talk with God.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

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.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

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

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.