Difficult Emotions: Anger Quotes

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"One of the things that you have trouble with, politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen"

Cathy Freeman, Athlete

"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"Now when you hates, you shrinks up inside and gets littler, and you squeezes your heart tight, and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor"

Margaret Walker, Poet

"These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them"

Zane Grey, Author

"I was briefly bitter"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror"

Nicholas D. Kristof, Writer

"This is the worst President ever. He, George W. Bush, is the worst President in all of American history"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers"

Jimmy Breslin, Entertainer

"I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but hatred cradles you"

Janet Fitch, Author

"There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world"

William Shenstone, Poet

"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans"

Don Young, Politician

"I have a temper on me that could hold back tides"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"Barack Obama is the worst president in history. In my generation, we'll inherit a weakened country, drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C. What's happened to America? I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"Expressing anger is a form of public littering"

Willard Gaylin, Scientist

"I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people"

Randy Forbes, Politician

"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die"

Bruce Cockburn, Musician

"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"I can't stand John McCain"

Harry Reid, Politician

"I lost my temper on stage"

Michael Richards, Actor

"Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... And that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room"

Michael Richards, Actor

"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity"

Mary Garden

"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you!"

Anne Heche, Actress

"So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger"

Diana Ross, Actress

"I mean, you really can target your answers to get the instant response, and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all"

Jim Bolger, Statesman

"I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"I hate female men"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave!"

Wallis Simpson, Royalty

"We hate our squalor"

Andrei Platonov, Writer

"One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head"

Hermann Broch, Writer

"There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode"

GG Allin, Musician

"Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger"

Nancy Friday, Author

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