Ranting And Raving Quotes

• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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• But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Mcmurphy, History

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

  James Gandolfini

  Character, Saws, Useless

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• If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.

  Bobby Cox

  Player, Appreciate, Want

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• The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

  Carl Bernstein

  News, Agendas, Mainstream

  "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.

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• I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Thinking, Long

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Godly, Should Have, Religion

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• The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

  Gough Whitlam

  Running, Horse, Memorable

  London Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1989.

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• It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

  Jerry Orbach

  Fun, Drinking, Drug

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.

  Gough Whitlam

  Children, Memorable, Hands

  Gough Whitlam's Gurindji Land Ceremony speech, August 16, 1975.

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• When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member." I interjected "I remember." Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.

  Gough Whitlam

  Country, Years, House

  Gough Whitlam's speech during a debate at the Sydney Town Hall, May 24, 2000.

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• Tomorrow, they [mass media] will say, Donald Trump rants and raves at the press. I'm not ranting and raving. You're dishonest people.

  Donald Trump

  Media, People, Tomorrow

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Age, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here's a little tip Howard - cut back on the Red Bull.

  David Letterman

  Cutting, Bulls, Littles

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• Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Children, Pain

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• A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

  Billy Eichner

  Character, Thinking, Rocks

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