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Quotes About Mad

It's ironic, isn't it, that one day you're one of the most conservative members, and then some individual gets mad at you, and they decide to throw millions of dollars against you because you didn't vote exactly the way they want every day.
~ James Lankford
For the great Gaels of Ireland," wrote G. K. Chesterton, Are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.
~ Thomas Cahill
there was the old hippie-hating mad dog himself, moonlighting after a busy day of civil-rights violation, as pitchman for Channel View Estates.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Being with Diana was a liberating, unholy adventure. It was also dark and strange and, tonight, even a little terrifying. James was right. Just like Lord Byron, she was mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.
~ Kenneth Boulding
But O the mad heart, it is beating! and beauty seems lastingly bright, As if it could never go fleeting afar on the feet of delight, And be lost in the thicket of night!
~ bynner witter ii
During my sorrowful outburst, my mother had remained entirely impassive. But then why not? Was she not mad? Nay, she was not. She had successfully discarded, as I also wished to do, the arduous yoke of a troublesome existence and had escaped to a tranquil haven somewhere beyond the reach of our world.
~ Geoff Cooper
I smiled and gave them a little wave. I'm so mad at you right now.
~ Ilona Andrews
Oh what a mad business, no good can come of it, only chaos, and not just chaos but evil. How did we gradually get entangled in such a terribly dangerous shambles!
~ Iris Murdoch
It had been a silly indulgence gone mad, a collective insanity.
~ Irvine Welsh
My maternal aunts and uncles, the Barros, were twelve rather eccentric brothers and sisters, though none was hopelessly mad.
~ Isabel Allende
Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
~ George Santayana
Tupac is my favorite artist, and he had mad style.
~ Lewis Hamilton
I bought a dress a few years ago for £2,500. It was outrageous and not the kind of money you want to be spending. I had a mad moment that day.
~ Sharleen Spiteri
I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.
~ Kate Zambreno
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what's so funny about that?" "It's not exactly funny. It's more of a good news/bad news situation." "In that case, hit me with the good news first." "They're both sort of rolled up into one." "Stop stalling." "All right. Now don't get mad, but . . ." Smothered laughter drifted toward him. "Cal . . . I'm naked.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You're just mad because God didn't answer your prayer the way you wanted him to.
~ Susan May Warren
The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
~ Susanna Clarke
I know that Finnick can't focus on anything in 13 because he's trying so hard to see what's happening in the Capitol to Annie, the mad girl from his district who's the only person on earth he loves.
~ Suzanne Collins
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.
~ Suzanne Collins
she's mad, but she's magic.
~ Charles Bukowski
we waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nights our silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
~ Charles Bukowski
these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.
~ Charles Bukowski