Anger Quotes

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene McCarthy

My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.

William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Benjamin Disraeli

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

T. S. Eliot

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Alexander Hamilton

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Earl of Chesterfield

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

Robert G. Ingersoll

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard, historian

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

Bhagavad Gita

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well - - Parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

English Prove

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Kelle

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Vladimir Nabokov

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Adrienne E. Gusoff