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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

When we got there, it obviously was in the beginning stages of the fire. It was coming from the middle of the church. Then the fire began to rage. Then it engulfed the whole church.

Terri Johnson

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Amour

My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.

Ariel Sharon

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

Jane Smiley

Susan Polk defended herself against an attack by a rageful, brutal, aggressive man.

Daniel Horowitz

Mr. Chavez has fed off the people's rage, and it is dangerous to perceive him as a vindicator rather than as a president.

Andres Perez

Everyone is jumping on the stop-snitching bandwagon. It's all the rage. Even if you have a conversation with police, you'll be called a snitch.

Minya Oh

Rage Against the Machine just broke up. The Chili Peppers are taking a hiatus. I just heard Newsted quit Metallica. It's going to be interesting what transpires out of all this.

Les Claypool

When he called his neighbor, the driver said 'they're trying to force me from the road.' That could be construed as road rage, but we are of the assumption that the individuals were known to each other.

B.d. Evans

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Luis Bunuel

Thank God we're Christians, because we'd probably be full of rage.

Mary Lewis

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

Katie Holmes

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Jesus, Jesus and More Jesus ... Jesus is all the rage in the media these days.

Lynn Garrett

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Rick Pitino

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Grace Paley

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Tristan is full of rage at the Irish for taking his family.

James Franco

Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions.

Tom Morello

Rage takes energy, and I want to keep my energy focused. If a man hits me, I'll think, good for you, that's a good shot.

Lennox Lewis

Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people... Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine.

David Duke

The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.

Saint Ignatius Of Loyola

He was in a rage. And it was so random, it's random that he would come to this house, he didn't know these folks and to come in and do this much damage, it's just mean.

Shannon Sessions

He's aggressive. He's a fit of rage. He's full of fury, and he should be one of the favorites.

Dave Zabriskie

We all have a little bit of espionage in us, but back in the '60s the James Bond movies were all the rage, and it was just a lot of fun.

Dave Baldwin

A lot of people's rage came out ... he was being ganged up on inside in there. We were just filled with so much grief when we entered that room.

Lisa Lyons

[The marches] have focused the American people's attention on people marching in the streets and waving Mexican flags ... who may not be grateful for the taxpayer-subsidized benefits they're getting and who are jumping in line ahead of those who are doing it legally. There is a quiet rage building.

Connie Hair

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

Pete Townshend

It's funny to hear the rage that a holiday symbolized by cute little Cupids and fluffy things brings out in people. That resentment definitely makes you want to not just ignore the holiday but do something as a protest ... a statement against dinner for two and cheesy professions of love.

Dannielle Romano

There's a character in Assassins who is so filled with rage that he wants to crash a plane into the White House, and that seemed just crazy before 9/11. It doesn't seem so crazy anymore.

John Weidman

On the one hand there is definitely rage and anger for the drunken driver of the car mixed with overwhelming sadness for the survivors.

Gene Kelly

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Theodore Dreiser

It was road rage. Some guy -- maybe he was drunk -- saw a sitting duck with a yellow helmet and couldn't resist.

Bryan Anderson

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

Stephen Lewis

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

There will always be angry men who want to take out their rage and it's the access to specific categories of firearms like assault rifles and handguns that allow them to do so quickly and easily.

Josh Sugarmann

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Raoul Vaneigem

Are you ready to have your mind blown apart by the most awesome show in the universe. ... Tonight is your night to rage against the machine.

Jack Black

It'll be all the rage, ... I'm sure of it.

Jeff Smulyan

Inflation and interest rates are all the rage.

David Buik

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It was a scene of rage. This was not a planned assassination, ... This was a rage that basically grew out of Marty's frustration about living in that house.

Leonard Lato

When involved in a road rage incident, take a deep breath and ask yourself if the actions are worth your life.

Grant Boles

It is here that the masses that Frantz Fanon correctly called the wretched of the earth turn against one another not in rage, but in despair.

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside of me now. The Angkar (Khmer Rouge government) has taught me to hate so deeply that I know I have the power to destroy and kill.

Loung Ung

When we wipe away the tears of rage and sorrow, we will be proud to have had him.

Milorad Vucelic

That sent the Georgia fan sitting behind him into a fit of rage.

Todd Jurkowski

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

Roy Wilkins

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Will Rogers

Politicians are talking like consumer advocates now that they see consumers' rage over the profiteering built into pump prices. The proof of their sincerity, however, will be whether they carry through with tough legislation.

Judy Dugan

And I think that on this record, we've accomplished the mission we set out at the beginning of the first rehearsals. And that was, not to just make the best Rage Against the Machine record, but to make the best Rage record by a wide margin. We've made the heaviest record to date and it's our funkiest record to date.

Tom Morello

During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead he taught his followers to respond with mercy and best behavior.

Ehsan Ahmed

The mayor has let her rage, her distaste for Ray Hunt, cloud her vision. We have a mayor who thinks she can make unilateral decisions that she cannot. This is not a monarchy.

Ed Oakley

I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal.

Zack De La Rocha