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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.


Milan Kundera

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
SAINT ALBERTUS MAGNUS He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him...
STEPHEN KING That's him doing what he can do. He took over when we needed him to.
BRIAN HARRINGTON It took time for me to search my heart for it. Cannot just write a song over-night, you got to feel ...
DARREN BENITEZ [The child said] he took him to the bathroom and he says he whooped him. He had him bend over the co...
THELMA BRADLEY By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form.
STEVE MARTIN There has been anger at times over high gas prices in Europe, I don't see any growing anger right no...
BEN LIEBERMAN He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Sometimes ...
it took seconds to control your anger,
only to avoid the state of eternal f...
TOBA BETA Huge difference. You can't even compare it. He took over a program that he knew going in was going t...
PETE CARROLL Over time, our anger has gone, and we've understood why it has to be there. But we still don't like ...
BARBARA HOFFMAN In the second half, he took the game over and made his presence felt.
BRUISER FLINT It was unbelievable. He beat all of the Carroll guys and took over two seconds off his best time.
DEBI MEASE Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
MILAN KUNDERA Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagin...
MILAN KUNDERA I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the...
MICHAEL RICHARDS In the second half Tucker took over the game. They went small with him and he was awfully tough for ...
QUIN SNYDER Don's a competitor, and Don's a team player. He took over in the fourth quarter.
JIM HALEY It took awhile to get his legs under him. We're seeing over the last month the kind of pitcher he is...
JERRY NARRON I couldn't make Water until I stopped being angry ... it took me five years to get over my anger. Wh...
DEEPA MEHTA A lot of the anger we came across was more the 'sapping of energy' kind rather than an explosion of ...
DONALD GIBSON A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically a...
MILAN KUNDERA Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again....
PAUL DAVID TRIPP Roy took them over the hump. He put them on his back.
BEN BRAUN Ryan came up big in the second half. He took over when we needed him to step up, like a senior who's...
ERIC SWANSON Hendrickson took the game over.
ROB ADAMS He took a little extra time looking over that putt because he wanted to make par so bad. We knew it ...
KYLE COODY [IN THE SIX-AND-A-HALF YEARS since he took over] The Daily Show, ... The Late Late Show.
JON STEWART The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
BIBLE Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
BARRY TOOK Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK We were frustrated at each other. We started cussing at each other. And when we lined up we took our...
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MILAN KUNDERA Jude was good. But he let his fear and jealousy get to him." Daniel shrugged. "'Fear leads to
a...
BREE DESPAIN He is the top guard in the league, and he won the game. He knew they needed buckets, and he took the...
JASON RICHARDSON I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over.
CRAIG ANGELOS John just took over the game.
JOE LUSARDI I don't even know if Jared saw me. He just flipped it, and I took over.
BRYAN LERG It's time to lay down the anger. We need to continue to uphold those people over there, to uphold th...
DEBORAH JOHNS I thought I was about over my anger, and I found out Tuesday evening from the Bureau of Prisons that...
JANNIE COVERDALE She took control over her mind, body and emotions.
KATHRYN CONTE He started breathing after about five or six breaths. He was slowly coming to when the EMS arrived a...
MATT MCAULY The familiar technique of counting to 10 not only provides the time needed for delay but also offers...
DAN JOHNSTON We came out and controlled the game. We really took over the middle of the field and took it to them...
KATHY DODD I think they were shocked that he left, and it took a while for them to get over that.
DAN ROSACKER When I first got over here, he really helped me out. He took me under his wing.
JASON BARTLETT I always take my anger lightly. I examine my anger and learn from it every time.
VIKRANT PARSAI My dad was in the pasture with me and saw me, so he came over to get me in the truck, and he took me...
KEITH HARRIS It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving int...
BARACK OBAMA He flipped the switch and had confidence and took over our team. This is now Vince Young's team.
MACK BROWN I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes.
GREY DELISLE It wasn't that we came in and took over. Their business model failed.
KATHRYN GALLAGHER There is mounting anger in Western business circles over the lack of radical liberal reforms and the...
ALEXANDER RAHR She's definitely competitive. I never have to say 'I doubt you want to win this set'. ... But there ...
JANE BURKE If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occu...
PATRICIA LOVE He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she ...
J.R. WARD Matt took over in the second half. He's a complete player.
JASON BUMBLIS The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. Prove...
BIBLE The war defined a lot of things. Whatever he saw over there, he appreciated life here, and he apprec...
MARILYN WEEKS Seber came out and got JeJuan and took him on the base, and he went out and played with the older cr...
DAPHNE BROWN This is a sad and very tragic moment. Over this stadium hangs heavy emotion, a lot of pain and anger...
DANNY JORDAAN one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would tak...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Mark's a great singer and great performer and songwriter. He took over the vocals and harmony singin...
CHUCK MEAD I think there is still quite a level of public anger with the government over this scandal,
JAY HILL It's an exaggeration to say they took Neon guts and built a truck over it, but took a lot of things ...
ROD LACHE I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
LECH WALESA Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.
DIRK BAUERMANN We had to double up down low and when we did that, Pierce just did what he does. He took over this g...
GARRARD GALVAN They have a difference- maker in Knowles. When it counted, he just took over the game. He went to th...
BUDDY BIGGS Anger can sometimes be adaptive. We're showing for the first time that when you are in a situation t...
JENNIFER LERNER I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,
DREW BARRYMORE His toes were still sliding across the line when Combs took him over. Somebody should have it on tap...
BRYANT FISHER I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
MAX CANNON We took our free shipping truck and ran over their obstacle.
ROBERT PRICE He took off as fast as the bike could go. He was probably going over 100 miles per hour.
RYAN CALDWELL He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. FORBES He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
PLATO Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
OVID We took a step forward in Week 1 (a 21-14 win over Lawrence). But last week we took a step back.
ANDY GIBBONS You get a call and it's your daughter-in-law crying saying she's giving him CPR and trying to keep h...
JEFF COLLIER The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
CHARLES B. RANGEL Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he ha...
JACK WHITESIDE PARSONS The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
MILAN KUNDERA We didn't choose to be cautious, but Milan needed the win and we didn't, so both teams took a differ...
FABIO CAPELLO In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
CHUCK YEAGER If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do,...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think people who had helped me should really get the recognition.
JONI ANGER I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years.
JONI ANGER They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the po...
JONI ANGER I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside....
JONI ANGER Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, g...
KENNETH ANGER Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
KENNETH ANGER I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
KENNETH ANGER The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. B...
KENNETH ANGER I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may b...
KENNETH ANGER I've made several films that haven't been shown.
KENNETH ANGER

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MILAN KUNDERA En griego, «regreso» se dice nostos. Algos significa “sufrimiento”. La nostalgia es, pues, el ...
MILAN KUNDERA And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love...
MILAN KUNDERA The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us...
MILAN KUNDERA Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know ...
MILAN KUNDERA To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't deat...
MILAN KUNDERA The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ...
MILAN KUNDERA Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything ex...
MILAN KUNDERA Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
MILAN KUNDERA The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place ...
MILAN KUNDERA But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
MILAN KUNDERA Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and ...
MILAN KUNDERA When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he...
MILAN KUNDERA Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional ...
MILAN KUNDERA Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she...
MILAN KUNDERA The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of f...
MILAN KUNDERA In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone w...
MILAN KUNDERA A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of...
MILAN KUNDERA I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...
MILAN KUNDERA Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...
MILAN KUNDERA I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one ...
MILAN KUNDERA Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
MILAN KUNDERA Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by t...
MILAN KUNDERA Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
MILAN KUNDERA Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
MILAN KUNDERA To laugh is to live profoundly.
MILAN KUNDERA The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
MILAN KUNDERA The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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MILAN KUNDERA There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ...
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