Mad Quotes - Page 17

• If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, People, Groups

  "Paul Krugman on why Janet Yellen is the un-central banker". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 30, 2014.

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• A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Taken, Long, Political

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• They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Men, Should

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• There is eloquence in screaming.

  Patrick Jones

  Crazy, Eloquence

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• See the ridiculous in everything.

  Robert Smith

  Crazy, Ridiculous

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• He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

  Francis Bacon

  Crazy, Animal, Solitude

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• It's a perfect day for letting go.

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Crazy, Perfect Days

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Struggle, Saws

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Out of too much learning become mad.

  Robert A. Burton

  Learning, Too Much

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• The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.

  Adam Phillips

  Children, Feelings, May

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

  Charles Mackay

  Running, Reading, People

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I”, p.7

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• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Gone, Knows

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Gratitude, Stupid

  "Fictional character: Lester Burnham". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. September 8, 1999.

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Drinking, Men

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• Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

  Tim O'Brien

  Bed, Illusion, Lied

  Tim O'Brien (2006). “In the Lake of the Woods”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

  Bill Lee

  Running, Home, Play

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• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

  Sting

  Madness, Being Mad

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• It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

  Edward Young

  Daughter, Night, Growth

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

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• I think she always nursed a small mad hope.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thinking, Nurse

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.41, Vintage

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• It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

  Voltaire

  Success, Winning, Order

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• We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

  Jim Morrison

  Eye, Dark, Dancing

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Thinking, Hair

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• I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

  Michelle Williams

  Crazy, Mad Person, Persons

  "Michelle Williams Laughs, Cries and Talks". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. January 12, 2011.

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• You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

  Dan O'Brien

  Knowing, Upset, Able

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• An undevout astronomer is mad.

  Edward Young

  Astronomers

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

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