William Safire Quotes

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

I'm too mature to be angry.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

You have to control your anger - you can't be a baby when you lose.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.

Communication, that keeps everything cool. Not holding anything back, you got to tell each other what's on your mind, that's really it. Otherwise when one gets mad at one, it can burst and you just let it out and it can just come out wrong.

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

I am quite a calm player. I do have a go at players and refs in the heat of the moment, but I never throw my toys out of the pram.

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

I would never say don't have an argument.

Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'

I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.