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Quotes About Frantic

Jack frantically tried to herd my white-hot father into the car before he weighed into the congregation and gave the minister the left foot of fellowship right in his Sunday pants
~ Rick Bragg
There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus' lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow him to be Lord of our rest as well as our work. The challenge is disarmingly simple: one day a week, not to do anything that we know to be work.
~ Andy Crouch
The memories are vague of the accident. I remember coming out of the pitlane with cruise control, letting it go and then losing control of the car. I remember my hands frantically operating the steering wheel trying to recover control of the car, then this big, big noise and nothing more.
~ Alex Zanardi
Reacher liked New York more than most places. He liked the casual indifference of it all and the frantic hustle and the total anonymity.
~ Lee Child
She's stark raving mad!
~ Lewis Carroll
There's a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
~ Rumi
I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these two goats [Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard].
~ Aleister Crowley
Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.
~ Douglas Wilson
Sudden revulsion seized Amory, disgust, loathing for the whole incident. He desired frantically to be away, never to see Myra again, never to kiss anyone; he became conscious of his face and hers, of their clinging hands, and he wanted to creep out of his body and hide somewhere safe out of sight, up in the corner of his mind.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.
~ Robin Hobb
She'd be frantic. Realize that she was about to die in
~ Lisa Jackson
I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous though tolerant of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery.
~ Allen Ginsberg
What does it mean to be a society and culture so frantic that we don't have time to dream?
~ Johann Hari
today's flood of addiction is occurring because our hyperindividualistic, frantic, crisis-ridden society makes most people feel social[ly] or culturally isolated. Chronic isolation causes people to look for relief.
~ Johann Hari
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
~ Edward Abbey
I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.
~ Sara Gilbert
Airports! The neon floodlit, recycled air filled, melodramatic hell of them. The purposeful mass migration of anxiety-ridden humans as they frantically navigate through beeping buggies and mechanised walkways to make it to their gate in time is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
~ Michael Leunig
Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.
~ Patrick Lencioni
For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.
~ Dick Strawbridge
It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
~ Emily Weiss
I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.
~ David Ginola
One means of allaying anxiety is frantic activity. The anxiety arising out of the dilemma of powerlessness in the face of suprapersonal economic forces on one hand, but theoretical belief in the efficacy of individual effort on the other, was symptomized partly by excessive activism.
~ Rollo May