Bridget’s anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man’s critics.

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

The anger and frustration among all employee groups at Northwest Airlines was evident throughout the voting process. In the end, Northwest management failed to convince a majority of the work force that the proposal was...

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me

When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained...

Never loan your heart to hatred; it pays you back with self-destruction. Majority of people living are not aware that anger is an acid that destroys its own container.

Where are you?” I wheeze into the floor. “Where did you go?

The middle finger is a great body language tool for letting people know you’re upset. Poetry isn’t quite as effective in a fit of road rage.

When you aren’t drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow of fame or working all the time or eating your way through the refrigerator, being...

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. “My God!” Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. “What I...

Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions...

Am I feeling anything? Yeah. I’m feeling some f’ing sh**, Jen.

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. – Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.

Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn’t. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice. One of nature’s cruelties, or maybe it’s to keep us from killing each...

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that’s what I heard.””You heard wrong.””And they suspended...

It’s one thing to think you’re worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.

The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

Sanctions have become a way for the United States to vent its anger on the cheap without risking the lives of the armed forces,

Anger can be managed to becomeemotional content that raises power.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books,...

One cannot hang for attacking a piece of cloth.

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn’t grateful. I wasn’t grateful at all. Don’t get me wrong. I acted like I was. But...

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There’s only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other’s guts. Both conservatives and liberals agree among themselves, on...

Now, look what you’ve done!” she accused tearfully and bolted from the room.

Abba Macarius said, ‘If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself’.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will...

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

You have to design your own price tag for the world.

Then an experience that perhaps no good man can ever have in our world came over him-a torrent of perfectly unmixed and lawful hatred. The energy of hating, never before felt without some guilt, without...

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation.

Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people...

I spoke a word in anger To one who was my friend, Like a knife it cut him deeply, A wound that was hard to mend. That word, so thoughtlessly uttered, I would we could...

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale....

That man has some seriously oversized ovaries. Can you say PMS? He braked at anyone and everyone before shoving his way outside.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

When all the fights stop, so does the passion.

Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now.