"It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen."
7
"Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman."
15
"Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately."
6
"I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation."
6
"It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance."
4
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
11
"All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers."
6
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
3
"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."
7
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
8
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
6
"If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity."
8
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
6
"It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men."
8
"In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry."
6
"I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry."
6
"I'm not a great poetry fan."
6
"Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young."
8
"Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate."
7
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
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