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Music is an outburst of the soul. -- Frederick Delius
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. -- Ida B. Wells
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion. -- Meister Eckhart
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. -- Franz Kafka
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. -- Richard M. Nixon
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst. -- Sylvia Porter
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. -- Germaine Greer
There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises. -- Erma Bombeck
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble -- Beth Henley
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. -- Margery Allingham
Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed. -- Peter McWilliams
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.... -- John Muir
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . . -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings. -- Bertrand Russell
Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right. -- Otto Weininger
They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an intelligent way. Anything that isn't banal is said to be an outburst. They've created this cartoon world where everyone talks like Lineker and says nothing. -- Eamon Dunphy
In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment. -- Julia Cameron
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? -- Robert A. Heinlein
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. -- Georgie Fame
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. -- Beth Henley
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement. -- David Harvey
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. -- Jimmy Carter
Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary. -- Amy Klobuchar
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His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst. -- Kelley Armstrong
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. -- Kirby Larson
I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia. -- Donald Ray Pollock
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. -- Joseph Conrad
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. -- Joan Miro
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations. -- Stendhal
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time. -- John Flanagan
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff. -- Alice Winocour
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. -- Hector Berlioz

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