Sylvia Day Quotes

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

Everyone deals with criticism in a different way. Some guys read it, some guys don't really listen to it, some guys try to stay away from it, some guys get angry about it.

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.

The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ...you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.

SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

Whatever the attitude, so is the response.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.