Mad Quotes - Page 23

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Let us stop being afraid. Of our own thoughts, our own minds. Of madness, our own or others'. Stop being afraid of the mind itself, its astonishing functions and fandangos, its complications and simplifications, the wonderful operation of its machinery--more wonderful because it is not machinery at all or predictable.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Eternal love made me.

Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

It’s not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It’s about who learned from it.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Technology is society made durable.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.