Quotes About Aggression

On the National Executive sat Charles Clarke, looking like a rather manky chimpanzee with his unkempt beard, jug ears and his air of surly aggression.

I'll moider de bum.

Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—

Most people who want to cut a throat start on the outside, They hack and saw and chop.' She mimed hacking and sawing and chopping. 'That's all right if you want to hurt their feelings,' she said. 'That's alright if you want to put a crimp in their day. But not if you want to be certain of killing them.

The five poisons of desire, aggression, jealousy, pride, and ignorance are transformed, or transmuted, into their corresponding five wisdoms. Desire is transformed into discriminating wisdom, aggression into mirror-like wisdom, jealousy into all accomplishing wisdom, pride into wisdom of equanimity, and ignorance into wisdom of dharmadhatu, or reality.

Kids who are oppositional or acting out in angry and aggressive ways often can't explain how they're feeling. They are overwhelmed, yet the only emotion they know how to communicate is anger.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Hey, I'm mad, too," Tsunami said. "But —" "LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN.

Bite her! Bite all her claws off!

Frankly, I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction.

It turned out, though, that there was one thing Burn loved more than mutilating animals, and that was war.

That's true, because I would have ripped off your tail and beaten you with it first," Winter said. "Nice," Qibli said from the shore. "Not the face this time. Very creative.

Slow, despicable humans. Perhaps I will rip off their toes.

sneaking, stealing, attacking, thwacking, or pineapples," he

How am I going to last even a month without stabbing my claws through his superior eyeballs?

I can see that." Morrowseer's dark eyes narrowed as Viper, the SandWing, fell into a crevice and the MudWing promptly tripped and landed on top of her. With a hiss, Viper whipped around and bit Ochre's tail, setting off a yowling whine.

Good heavens,' cried Mr White. 'To fire great iron balls at people you have never even spoken to – barbarity is come again.

Come athwart my hawse and I shall ride you down, you half-baked son of an Egyptian fart,' to a wool-gathering jolly-boat; and art echoed from either shore.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it; but he gave way with a tolerable show of civility

It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a certain value in that they gave a picture of what the man would wish to seem; but a very few were enough for that. And then they had a striving, aggressive quality, as though the listener had to be bludgeoned into admiration; they were the antithesis of conversation.

But every day we meet someone whose behavior suddenly changes from one moment to the next. And we wonder: what happened to this person I thought I knew? Why is he acting so aggressively? Is it stress at work? And then the next day the person is normal again. You're relieved, but soon after the rug is pulled out from under you when you least expect it. And this time, instead of asking what's wrong with this person, you wonder what you did wrong.

What is a kettlebell? It's a cannonball with a handle. It's an extreme handheld gym. It's a statement: "I'm sick of your metrosexual gyms! I'm a man, and I'll train like a man!" Lifting a kettlebell is liberating and as aggressive as medieval swordplay. It's a manifestation of what Ori Hofmekler has called the "warrior instinct.

Alcohol has been shown to diminish boys' ability to read social cues or notice a partner's hesitation. It gives them the nerve they might not otherwise have to use coercion or force to get what they want: drunk guys are more aggressive when they assault and less aware of their victim's distress. Inebriation also makes boys less likely to step in as bystanders than they would be if they were sober.

The opposite of patience is aggression—the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.