#fury

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#air #august #din #every #fury

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bears #black #could #does #effective

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convention #conventional #criticism #departure #fury

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#full #fury #heard #his #hour

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#art #fury #movement #must #new

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#anger #cause #either #fury #great

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#falsehood #fury #pain #love

The finest fury is the most controlled. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bob-dylan #control #fury #lonesome-death-of-hattie-carroll #music