William Kennedy Quotes

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Angry people are not always wise.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.

I don't focus well angry.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

The easiest and most accessible emotion is rage.

Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

anger cancels good judgement!

Rage is mental imbecility.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.