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Quotes About Anger

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." I
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
All Achilles's emotions seemed to be varying shades of anger.
~ Pat Barker
single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her
~ Pat Conroy
But you had a right to be angry." "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.
~ Patricia Highsmith
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
~ Patricia Highsmith
He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.
~ Patricia Highsmith
I appreciate your sentiments but I do not waste my time punching people in the nose. If I really don't like somebody, I kill him. – Victor Van Allen
~ Patricia Highsmith
The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Tren, öfkeli bir zang?rt? tutturmuÅŸ gidiyordu.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Damn you, you Indian bastard! You're not leaving me to tell Lily of your death. You're going to get up and walk out of here if it's the last thing I do. But
~ Patricia Rice
As Lord Tennyson so truly says: Put down the passions that make earth Hell! Down with ambition, avarice, pride, Jealousy, down! Cut off from the mind The bitter springs of anger and fear; Down too, down at your own fireside, With the evil tongue and the evil ear, For both are at war with mankind!
~ Patricia Wentworth
My wife and I made a pact a long time ago, and we've kept it no matter how angry we've grown with each other. When one yells, the other should listen—because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations.
~ Dale Carnegie
Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
~ Dale Carnegie
Opera tenor Jan Peerce, after he was married nearly fifty years, once said: "My wife and I made a pact a long time ago, and we've kept it no matter how angry we've grown with each other. When one yells, the other should listen – because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations." PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
~ Dale Carnegie
Anything done in anger can be done better without it!
~ Dallas Willard
Anger indulged, instead of simply waved off, always has in it an element of self-righteousness and vanity. Find a person who has embraced anger, and you find a person with a wounded ego.
~ Dallas Willard
The effect of the rupture that sin created in the relationship between the man and the woman is this: mistrust, anger, and disappointment became the standard quality of human life. Even
~ Dallas Willard
Anger and condemnation like vengeance, are safely left to God. We must beware of believing that it is okay for us to condemn as long as we are condemning the right things. It is not so simple as all that. I can trust Jesus to go into the temple and drive out those who were profiting from religion, beating them with a rope. I cannot trust myself to do so.
~ Dallas Willard
Righteous anger invites change. It can envision what the other might look like if the arrogance controlling the heart was pierced. Anger is a surgical weapon, designed to destroy ugliness and restore beauty. In the hands of one who is trained in love and who can envision beauty, the knife of righteous anger is a weapon for restoration.
~ Dan Allender
When pain lumbers through the front door, squats down in the middle of your life, and makes itself at home day after day, year after year, it can make you choke. It can make you angry at God.
~ Dan B. Allender
It is in the dark struggles with God that we are surprised by His response to our anger and fear. What we receive from Him during our difficult battle is not what we expect. We assume He wants order, conformity—obedient children. Instead, we find that He wants our passionate involvement and utter awe in the mystery of His glorious character.
~ Dan B. Allender
Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.
~ Dan Brown
You don't need to control emotion," he said. "Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.
~ Dan Millman