But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.
To a rat, a small hole is like a door.
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob
But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.