Fanatics Quotes - Page 7

• Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

  Patrick F. McManus

  Winter, Men, Lakes

  Patrick F. McManus (1982). “They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?”, p.26, Macmillan

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

  Anne Royall

  Common Sense, Atheism, Reason

  8 Copy quote

• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Book

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

  Alan Ritchson

  Growing Up, Book, Comic

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Im a popcorn fanatic. No matter how full I am, I can eat popcorn.

  Julianne Phillips

  Popcorn, Matter, I Can

  21 Copy quote

• The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Character, Greatness, Choices

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.157

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Needs, Boring, Burn Out

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

  Samuel Smiles

  Doors, Next, Egotism

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.229

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doubt, Prejudice

  8 Copy quote

• ... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

  Freya Stark

  Eye, Impact, Blue

  7 Copy quote

• One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.

  Martin Niemoller

  Strong, Men, Listening

  "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 225), 1984.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Years, Two

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Religious

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a cookbook fanatic.

  Samantha Bee

  Cookbook

  4 Copy quote

• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

  8 Copy quote

• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

  25 Copy quote

• They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Horse, Hobbies, Faults

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, People, Giving

  5 Copy quote

• Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

  Chico Xavier

  Compassion, Trouble, Prisoner

  46 Copy quote

• Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Determined, Enough, Please

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

  Rachel Cohn

  Stars, Classic

  4 Copy quote

• I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.

  John Mellencamp

  Guy, Records, Produce

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

  Keith Olbermann

  Sports, Religious, Depressing

  "News Duo Thinking Young" by David Bauder, www.deseretnews.com. December 09, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Womb

  'Remorse for Intemperate Speech'

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Slippery, Fanaticism

  7 Copy quote