Dan Miller Quotes

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

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• When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Sorrow
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick
  • Decision
  • Sound
  • Anger

• Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Everything

• Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understanding
  • Anger

• And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Optimism

• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Stop
  • Anger

• The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Success
  • Jews
  • Resentment

• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Today

• And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Earth
  • Sorrow
  • Grieving

• When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Inspiration

• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Words

• Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Voice
  • Hermione
  • Warts

• Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

  

  Bill N. Lacy
  • Design
  • Assistance
  • Exaggeration

• The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

  

  William Plomer
  • Eye
  • Born
  • Surprise

• As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Abuse
  • Arrows
  • Battlefield

• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Country
  • Home
  • Care

• Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

  

  Dan Miller
  • Sorrow
  • Anger
  • Around