Quotes About Anger

Little bitty thing? Dude, you didn't see her go straight-up psycho. She's like a hella honey badger.

Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

rage had taken its turn in the driver's seat, and she had lashed out, first at John and then at Grace's coach: "You pointed Grace out to the abductor? What kind of fucking idiot are you?

Emotions are built on layers. Beneath hatred is usually anger; beneath anger is frustration; beneath frustration is hurt; beneath hurt is fear. If you keep expressing your feelings, you will generally move through them in that order. What begins with "I hate you" culminates in "I'm scared. I don't want to lose you, and I don't know what to do about it.

People who were abused as children tend to get angry and strike out at the world. People who were neglected tend to feel defeated and withdraw from the world. People who were not given guidance tend to lack confidence and self-reliance. Each pathway leads to different forms of self-defeat.

Empathy is a sensory experience; that is, it activates the sensory part of your nervous system, including the mirror neurons we've talked about. Anger, on the other hand, is a motor action—usually a reaction to some perceived hurt or injury by another person. So by taking people out of anger and shifting them into an empathic behavior, the Empathy Jolt moves them from the motor brain to the sensory brain.

anger and empathy—like matter and antimatter—can't exist in the same place at the same time. Let one in, and you have to let the other one go. So when you shift a blamer into empathy, you stop the person's angry ranting dead in its tracks.

You're in trouble if you're trying to gain buy-in from someone who's feeling angry, defiant, upset, or threatened because, in these situations, the person's higher brain isn't calling the shots. If you're talking to a boss, a customer, a spouse, or a child whose lower brain or midbrain is in control, you're talking to a cornered snake or, at best, a hysterical rabbit.

When people go on the attack it's usually because they feel (rightly or wrongly) that they've been treated poorly. That's especially true if you're dealing with angry and frustrated customers. Often such people feel hurt in many areas of life but save their "road rage" for outbursts that they believe won't get them fired, divorced, or arrested—like kicking the dog or yelling at you.

The key fact to know when somebody goes nuclear is that the person is stuck in attack mode, so rational, reasonable, intelligent conversation won't work. A guy who's throwing a computer at the boss or waving a gun around can't listen to reason, because he can't access the higher thought processes that say "Hey, calm down—this is crazy.

Some are angry because they feel deprived of parental approval or love. Some are frustrated because their parents don't understand them and won't even try. Some resent their parents' attempts to control them, while others resent their indifference. And almost all of them feel guilty for not appreciating those who sacrificed so much to raise them.

The middle mammal brain is the seat of your emotions. (Call it your inner drama queen.) It's where powerful feelings—love, joy, sadness, anger, grief, jealousy, pleasure—arise.

Unresolved anger is singled out as a sin that gives the devil an opportunity to derail and defeat us. Demons seize upon it to nurture bitterness and resentment, which wreak havoc in our souls.

Ephesians 4:26-27 gives us clues that demons can gain a foothold in our lives by our behavior. "Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.

Blame the promoter, not me. Damn you!

I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.

What's that you say, girl? A foamy-mouthed kitty bit your ass and now you've gone mondo batshit?

No, NAKED GUY'S the stupid one here, naked guy -- NAKED GUY WENT AND MADE HULK ANGRY!!

GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!

It is true that the gods are dead, because of course we killed them. But their ghosts are still with us, and the anger of those ghosts is righteous and palpable and poetic.

Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well-adjusted, happy, and successful individuals. Again, this is evident

Interpreters have imposed on Genesis 3 ideas about sin and disobedience, divine anger, or divine punishment found elsewhere in the Bible.

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.