Mad Quotes - Page 60

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

Mistakes will be made, make no mistake

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper. And it remains on paper.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

Life is made up of compromises.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.