“Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.”
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“I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.”
“The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.”
“I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.”
“Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.”
“I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.”
“He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.”
“Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.”
“I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.”
“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”
“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.”
“I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.”
“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.”
“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.”
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”
“I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.”
“All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.”
“My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.”
“When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.”
“Your anger is a gift.”
“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.”
“In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.”
“Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.”
“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.”