Quotes of: Mad Keyword

When the healthy dog fights with a mad dog, it is the ears of the healthy one that are bitten off.

Myanmar

Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life . . . was to cultivate a kind of madness within, to perform the mad dance of Shiva, . . . to rock and sway and flap six arms and six legs to an inner...

Cutting for Stone

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 u...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl wh...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

They danced down the street like dingledodies and I shambled after as usual as I’ve been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous...

On the Road

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

The Complete Stories and Poems

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

1984

A strong and brave heart isn’t enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.

Insanity (Mad in Wonderland)

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Sarah Canary

Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.

The Shock of the Fall

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

The Madness Season

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

The Madness Vase

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

Lewis Carroll

Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

Matt Groening

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Heinrich Heine

sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Jon Ronson

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Colin Powell