Top 100 Quotes About In Anger
#1. Wow," Silas says softly as he kills the ignition. I follow his stare out the windshield - Rosie is standing in the kitchen doorway, arms folded and eyes sparkling in anger. "Rosie looks ... different.
Jackson Pearce
#2. Alecto was the oldest, unceasing in anger. Magaera was next, retaliator of jealousy, and Tisiphone, the last, regarded as the avenger of murder.
Elisabeth Naughton
#3. Use magic in anger, and you will harm yourself much more quickly than you will harm your adversary.
Lev Grossman
#5. Made me more aware of how we should always guard our tongues and never walk away from those we love in anger. Life lesson learned.
Lora Ann
#7. Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#8. If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Howard Staunton
#10. 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
#11. When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.
Barrie Dolnick
#12. Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#13. For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.
Winston Churchill
#14. I heard a bump and knew it must have been Nathan throwing the door up in anger. "And so what if she is here you asshole? I told you the other day that you are NOT welcome here anymore..!" He roared.
Line F. Nielsen
#15. Let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear but around in awareness. Let's see the beauty in everything. Let's create opportunities. Let's step out of something ordinary into something extraordinary!
Angela Rockwood
#16. Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.
Julie Garwood
#17. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurber
#18. Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Ford Frick
#19. Then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
John Milton
#20. The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.
Ralph Marston
#21. Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.
Alex Garland
#22. People think that those who commit suicide are against life - they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves.
Osho
#23. Ned's mouth tightened in anger. "Nor will I. Leave it be, Robert, for the love you say you bear me. I dishonored myself and I dishonored Catelyn, in the sight of gods and men.
George R R Martin
#24. When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.
Rajneesh
#25. Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
Herbert Hoover
#26. In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.
Rajneesh
#27. Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#29. Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.
Mary Stewart
#30. I reached to push my hair out of my eyes, finding someone had tied a knot it in. My face screwed up in anger as I realized it was a HAPA knot. Real funny.
Kim Harrison
#31. Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.
Arundhati Roy
#32. Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him ...
Saddam Hussein
#33. A man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves.
John Steinbeck
#34. We get only one life. We shouldn't waste a day of it in anger.
Dean Koontz
#35. Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger,
Lynn G. Robbins
#36. Anything done in anger can be done better without it!
Dallas Willard
#37. If I hear the phrase "selfie" one more time, I'll have to enroll myself in anger management classes.
Rebecca McNutt
#38. In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.'
'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this.
'I had to. It was court-ordered.
Sarah Dessen
#39. I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
Maya Angelou
#40. I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
Og Mandino
#41. Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.
Billy Graham
#42. Don't be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You'll never find peace in that. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. If you're aggressive in your dealings, that's how you'll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you'll never have peace of mind.
Pema Chodron
#44. Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#45. Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!
C. JoyBell C.
#47. Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#48. Mothers cry in anguish
and fathers curse in anger,
while others turn away in sadness,
all for the children who are lost.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#49. If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
George Bernard Shaw
#50. You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.
Mary Matalin
#51. Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
Amy Dickinson
#52. Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#53. Why would I be angry? Because they believe a thing does not make it so. There is no dignity in anger. But I am also not a kicked dog.
William Kent Krueger
#54. When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends.
Rumi
#55. How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.
Charles Dickens
#56. When things are said in anger, irritation or frustration, you can put a hole into someone just like you have put a hole into that fence.
Robin S. Sharma
#57. forgiveness helps people control their emotions so they maintain good judgment. They do not waste precious energy trapped in anger and hurt over things they can do nothing about. Forgiveness acknowledges we can't change the past. Forgiveness allows us not to stay stuck in the past.
Fred Luskin
#59. In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium ...
Jon Elster
#60. 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
#61. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.
Dana Arcuri
#62. George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney
#63. I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.
Maggie Nelson
#64. Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
Jack Canfield
#65. There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb ... suggests one day ... for every kilometer run in anger.
Hal Higdon
#67. It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.
James A. Forbes
#68. She had appetites in plenty: she spent all her strength in repressing them and she underwent this denial in anger.
Simone De Beauvoir
#69. I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.
Martin Luther
#70. By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.
Nichiren
#71. How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.
Genghis Khan
#73. If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
Mary Doria Russell
#74. Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Joanna Southcott
#75. Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
Umar
#76. That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.
Kim Harrison
#77. The first case of mad cow disease since 2006 was discovered right here in the United States. The good news, since the cow is in California, instead of putting the cow down, they are going to enroll him in anger management classes.
Jay Leno
#78. It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.
Jeane Manning
#79. We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
Francine Rivers
#80. Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Luke Ford
#81. Only a dog would lick a finger pointed in anger.
Jason Thomas
#82. I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.
Tommy Lee
#83. Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
Sherman Alexie
#84. If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.
If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.
If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.
If you want a partner in life take my hand.
I'm your man.
Leonard Cohen
#85. IF YOU are a relatively small woman, and a man at least twice your size is bellowing at you in anger, and you're wearing a prisoner's uniform, and he has a pair of handcuffs on his belt, I don't care how much of a badass you think you are, you'll be fucking scared
Piper Kerman
#88. know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish.
Paula Hawkins
#89. The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.
DJ Shadow
#90. Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
#91. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.
Alison Weir
#92. Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.
J.M. Coetzee
#93. It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.
Auliq Ice
#94. I'm sorry."
He looked at me. "Some day, Fitzchivalry," he warned me, "those words will not be enough. Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered. Even words uttered in anger.
Robin Hobb
#95. I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.
Gordon Parks
#96. I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#97. I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.
Kenneth Tynan
#98. I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.
Nhat Hanh
#99. There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger.
"But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.
Suzanne Collins
#100. My name," I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. "Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but as you did just now. As if I am the only man in the world who can satisfy you.
~Liam C.
J.J. McAvoy
