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• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Mind

• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life’s just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Resentment, Bitterness

• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Anger, Life

  Tags in People, Answer, Focus, Problem

• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Topics in Anger, Funny, Life

• Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

  Philip Dormer

  Topics in Anger

• Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work – though it’s not necessarily evident in anything that’s finished.

  Bruce Nauman

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Frustration

• Anger is not necessarily linked to violence. “The only bad thing is how we abuse anger. Anger drives us like fuel does a car. In Hindu tradition, they say that in every one of us there are two tigers, one representing evil and one representing good. They are constantly at war with one another. And one grandson asked his grandfather, ‘Which one wins the war?’ The grandfather said, ‘The one you feed.’”

  Arun Gandhi

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Violence

• I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger – but I have to succeed.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Succeed

• I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

  Danny Glover

  Topics in Anger, Family

  Tags in Powerful

• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  Daniel Webster

  Topics in Anger

• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back — in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Possibly, Confrontations

• There’s a lot of bitterness, there’s a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

  Fred Allen Boyd Jr.

  Topics in Anger, Work

• Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

  Beverly Sills

  Topics in Anger

• Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

  Francis Quarles

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Hatred

• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  Barbara Deming

  Topics in Anger

• He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

  B. C. Forbes

  Topics in Anger, God

• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick

  Topics in Anger, Decision

  Tags in Sound

• Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

  George William Curtis

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Expensive, Luxury

• For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn’t. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

  Kelly McGillis

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Time, Long

• I’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Someone, Issues