Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Fitzgerald

Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method

William Shakespeare

My wits begin to turn.

Billy Ocean

Success can create more madness than happiness.

William Shakespeare

Like madness is the glory of life.

Elie Wiesel

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Bruce Sterling

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Arundhati Roy

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

Anthony Trollope

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

George Orwell

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Erich Fromm

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Rudy Giuliani

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Wang Dawei

Liu's case could serve as a warning to those who attempt to breach athletes' rights by ambiguous means. His appeal could enhance the awareness of athletes' legal rights.

Chris Gerolmo

We're bringing the real world insofar as we can through stories into your living room, and we're trying to use the power of stories to illuminate morally complicated and morally ambiguous situations in the grand tradition

Hugh Dancy

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Jenji Kohan

Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

Kelsey Chow

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.

Greg Behrendt

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

Rob Henderson

Hence, low bond yields are ambiguous for policy. It's a classic on the one hand, on the other hand speech.

Emily Blunt

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Daniel H. Wilson

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.