Mad Quotes - Page 11

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Sometimes you don't realize how special something is until you lose it. Thats how I feel about Ramadan every year.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.