A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.”
“Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.”
“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“Anger bears a person’s emotions.”
Source: The conductor, Vol. 1
“Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.”
“Anger becomes righteous when you use it to defend the rights of another, without nursing any selfish motive.”
“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.”
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
“Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.”
“Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.”
“Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.”
Source: What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School
“Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.”
“Anger can be destructive, but it can also be transformative.”
Source: On Reckoning
“Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.”
Source: God's Men: A Novel
“Anger can keep you away from victory. Seek the wisdom to solve issues amicably.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.”
“Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be heard. Those voices are most effective when they are raised in unison, when they have mercy as well as anger behind them, and when, instead of roaring at the anger of old pain, they sing about the glorious possibilities of a future where anger has a smaller house than hope.”
“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”
“Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.”
Source: Between Here and Forever
“anger cancels good judgement!”
“Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty.”
“Anger cannot be dishonest.”
“Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.”
“Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“Anger carries a person in your mind forever.The day U can stand in the room with some1 without being affected is the day you truly moved on”
“Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.”
“Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.”
“Anger cements my tears in concrete.”
“Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.”
“Anger comes from insecurity, not from hate or love.”
“Anger could start a thing, but it took endurance and forbearance and patience to finish it.”
Source: The City in Glass
“Anger delivers important information about where one of our boundaries has been crossed. [...] When we restore the boundary that was violated, we honor ourselves. When we know ourselves and honor ourselves, we live with integrity, peace and power – understandingthat we are the kind of woman who will be wise and brave enough to care for herself. Good stuff.”
“Anger, despair, disbelief, resignation; all the tools it takes to survive.”
Source: Before You Knew My Name
“Anger destroys your soul.”
“Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.”
“Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.”
Source: John Ploughman's Pictures
“Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.”
Source: Submarine
“Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.”
Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”
“Anger doesn't mean righteousness. When you are angry about something. It doesn't mean that you are right about it.”
“Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.”
Source: Zen in the Martial Arts
“Anger doesn't win games.”
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.”
“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
“Anger exists to move us into action, whenever action is needed to protect our boundaries, our sense of self, or whatever we consider to be “ours”.”
“Anger expressed in the interior life is permitted to exist in its rawest and most honest form. It is not kept private out of shame or because it is inferior in status to public anger. Rather, its privacy grants us the freedom to understand our rage without pressure or compulsion to dilute it. It gives us the space to be laid bare and have our anger, like any emotion, refined in the presence of the divine.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Anger feels so much better than sadness, cleaner somehow and more definite. But then, when the anger fades, the sadness comes right back again, the same as ever.”
Source: Three Days in June
“Anger festered inside her. Hot, senseless anger that didn't care about the smoke or garden, or anything other than whether he had betrayed her.”
Source: Belladonna
“Anger festered inside her, Hot, senseless anger that didn't care about the smoke or the garden, or anything other than whether he had betrayed her.”