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Quotes About Mayhem

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
~ Rob Zombie
Jinnah proved obdurate: he was determined to obtain Pakistan. The Muslim League leader declared 16 August 1946 as 'Direct Action Day' to drive home this demand. Thousands of Muslim Leaguers took to the streets in an orgy of violence, looting and mayhem, and 16,000 innocents were killed in the resulting clashes, particularly in Calcutta.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Oh, goodie. Let the bloodbath commence. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just love the gifts you bring me for lunch. Other girls get diamonds. Me? I get mayhem and blood – and all before noon. Thanks, Tate. (Simone)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most of all, he wants Sin to suffer for helping to lock him in there. (Zakar) Oh, this just gives you the warm and fuzzies, doesn't it? (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
~ John Hendrick Bangs
I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.
~ Cher
All hell broke loose.
~ John Milton
Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
~ Elizabeth Wein
It's not desperation—there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing—and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger's tales of small-town souls who succumb to murderous mayhem.
~ Scott B. Smith
violence is so american violence is pretty girls guns 'n danger rape, murder, 'n mayhem tv above all eats us up 'n spits us out tells us lies we willingly believe
~ Scott C. Holstad
Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. He
~ Scott Sigler
the whole worl's in a state o' chassis
~ Sean O'Casey
It's chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.
~ Markus Zusak
Some men are born to destroy, and nothing satisfies them but that. Whatever you've got, they want to tear it apart, from architecture and bank vaults to order and society itself, anything, just to watch it twist, shred, and die. Then
~ Stephen Hunter
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
~ Donella Meadows
Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you?
~ Hilton Als
Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
~ Anand Gopal
These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.
~ Linwood Barclay
It was scary. It's a public beach that we're filming on, so there was tons of paparazzi, especially when Pamela would be working. It was absolutely mayhem.
~ Gena Lee Nolin
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
~ Sean O'Casey
By contrast, hedge funds made it through the mayhem without receiving any direct taxpayer assistance: There is no precedent that says that the government stands behind them.
~ Sebastian Mallaby
There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.
~ Jordan B. Peterson