Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. "

Alanis Morissette

Related Quotes:

" What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain. "

" Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. "

" The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us. "

" 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. "

" I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards. "

" Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. "

Linton Kwesi Johnson

" The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger. "

" You live, you learn. "

Alanis Morissette

" All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy. "

" I've had no problem harnessing anger. "

" I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. "

" The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Female rage is not often acknowledged - never mind written about - so one of the questions I'm asking is, 'Are you allowed to be this angry as you grow older as a woman?' But I'm also trying to trace where my anger came from. Who made me the person that is still so raw and angry? I think that it's empowering to ask that question. "

" If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. "

" Violent anger makes me physically ill. "

Langston Hughes

" There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. "

" 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. "

" Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent. "

" Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession. "

" We all can do our part to address America's anger mismanagement crisis. And for us Christians, it starts with a little more faith, hope, and love. "

" Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat. "

Alanis Morissette

" I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing. "

" As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. "

" Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits. "

" Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. "

" As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats. "

" Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level. "

" Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do. "

Peter McWilliams

" The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. "

" Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. "