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

• 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

• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

  

  Freya Stark
  • May
  • Soul
  • Sex

• Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where apocalypse bugs mate,” Wednesday said, walking into the room looking around. She dropped her Birkin on the floor and heard something scuttling behind the cheap plastic wood print veneer covered dresser. She turned to face Alvin, her head cocked to the side. “Seriously. I'm not saying five-star... I'm saying go on Expedia and find a place that actually has stars... any stars.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Things
  • Stars
  • Heard

• Wait around and wait around and pretty soon you won't be around.

  

  George Woodman
  • Around
  • Wait
  • Soon

• We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dying
  • Afraid
  • Lived

• Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Music
  • Man
  • End

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

  

  Dan Miller
  • Sorrow
  • Anger
  • Around