Frenzy Quotes

• From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Jealousy, Lord, Orthodox

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• I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

  Oscar Levant

  Art, Men, Chaos

  "TIME" Magazine, May 5, 1958.

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• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Literature, Return

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• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Substance, Conquer, Destruction

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Character, Artist, Costumes

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• I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

  Buck Owens

  Next Week, Waiting, Want

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• Someday without any reason dance in frenzy in total let go.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Dance, Letting Go, Someday

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• Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Life, Wisdom, Patriotic

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• Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Queens, Fall

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Reflection, Water

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Law

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

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• Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

  Winston Churchill

  Muslim Faith, Agriculture, Religion Of Islam

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

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• No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

  Winston Churchill

  Muslim Faith, Islam, Stronger

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Indispensable, Aesthetic

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

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• Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Creative, Intuition

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.244, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Expression, Support

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1955.

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• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Country, Men, Two

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Care, Want

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.

  Yann Martel

  World, Looks, Christianity

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• Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Character, Carpe Diem

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.

  George Will

  Needs, Ethics, Election

  "Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy". Book by George Will, Simon & Schuster, Chapter 1, p. 31, 1992.

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• Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  William Shakespeare

  Nurse, Melancholy

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.230

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• I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Real, Media

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• Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wall, Truth, Men

  1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

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