Frantic Quotes

• I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

  Sara Gilbert

  Purpose, Schedules, Kind

  8 Copy quote

• It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  World

  7 Copy quote

• A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Society, Original Thought, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fighting, Gestures, Littles

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

  George Sand

  Regret, Struggle, Heart

  37 Copy quote

• Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

  Compay Segundo

  Appreciate, Cuban

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Husband, Real, Thinking

  10 Copy quote

• Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace Of Mind, Energy, Life Altering

  Marianne Williamson (1997). “The Healing of America”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.

  Matt Kindt

  Battle, Trying, Done

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe.

  Judith Orloff

  Stress, Two, People

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 06, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Running, Sloth, Trying

  33 Copy quote

• What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Selfish, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.155

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mistake, Believe, Self

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Effort, Mind, Bars

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Advice, Handy, Following

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

  Charles Bukowski

  Eye, Looks, Lost

  9 Copy quote

• Going out on the field frantic isn't going to help you score points. You have to try to lead your team.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Team, Nfl, Trying

  "Kaepernick on the 49ers’ comeback: 'Frantic isn’t going to help you score points; you have to try to lead your team'". Interview with Tim Kawakami, blogs.mercurynews.com. January 20, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Compassion, Life Is, Avoidance

  13 Copy quote

• There's no destination. There's no getting anywhere. There's just the going. The key to life is to make the going really fun. Because people that are like, “If I just get to this, then boom!” And then they get there and there's this dawning of an afterwards. Whereas I'm just always in the going. And it's not a frantic going like, “I gotta keep going or I'm gonna go nuts!” I can not do anything for weeks or months if I need to and just sit and read books or watch movies. I'm just as fine consuming and absorbing new art as I am trying to make it. But it's all in the going.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Fun, Book

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.

  Steve Hagen

  Running, Buddhism, Japan

  9 Copy quote

• Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.

  Anne Ortlund

  Blessed, Cherish Every Moment, World

  Anne Ortlund (1986). “Disciplines of the Beautiful Woman”, W Publishing Group

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

  Henri Nouwen

  Desire, World, Worthwhile

  Source: www.liguorian.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Boys, Parent

  "On the Contrary".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

  Kelly McGillis

  Anger, Long, People

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

  Dave Barry

  Expansion, Dollars, Use

  4 Copy quote