Harold Nicolson Quotes

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

Sometimes when you remember yourself in a big, big fight, and you remember being very emotional, you use words, and you react in a way that you take back some hours later.

There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

I've always said throwing a club shows you care.

When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

Most people know me for U.S. Open, right? And during U.S. Open, I didn't show any emotions most of the time. But then after that, I did show - well, in my opinion, it was a lot of emotions. I got upset, and then I threw my racket or stuff like that.

There's times I blow my gasket. One thing I learned is I don't hold any grudges.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.

I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.

People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.

I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.