Conn Iggulden Quotes

...holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.

Conn Iggulden

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• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Politics
  • Kings
  • Holding

• I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Right
  • Down
  • Holding

• Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Job
  • Away

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Great
  • Sorrow

• Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Successful

• So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Plant

• Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Why
  • Grief
  • Doe

• Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Development
  • Ends

• We're dealing with 15 regulatory agencies as it is, so anything that makes it more stringent or tougher to mine is going to be bad news for the coal industry.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Bad
  • Industry
  • Dealing

• Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • She
  • Reality
  • Community

• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Improvement
  • Instinct

• The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Beauty
  • Dying
  • Coal

• Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Prove
  • Rage

• I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Children
  • Holding
  • Couples

• Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Grief
  • Cry
  • Rage

• If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Deserve
  • Criminals

• Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Young
  • Province
  • Rock Music

• All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Learning
  • Blessings
  • Increase

• Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

  

  Tina Desai
  • Happy
  • Positive
  • motivation

• ...holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Rage
  • Holding
  • Coal