Frenzy Quotes - Page 2

• When I stand on my special-issue "Intelligent Investor" ladder and peer out over the frenzied crowd, I see very few others doing the same. Many stocks remain overvalued, and speculative excess - both on the upside and on the downside - is embedded in the frenzy around stocks of all stripes. And yes, I am talking about March 2001, not March 2000.

  Michael Burry

  Intelligent, Talking, Issues

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• A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Wicked, Guilt, Goblin

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.30

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• I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

  Joseph Monninger

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

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• Flyfishing, which has a vaguely mystical aura, is a lot like work. I'm a frenetic flyfisherman. I wade up and down streams, looking for good spots, usually falling and breaking some piece of equipment. Or I stand still and work myself into a frenzy about what fly I should use. I love fishing, but it has never given me a moments peace.

  James P. Gorman

  Fall, Sea, Fishing

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• Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Flying, Kneeling, Firsts

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.

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• The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, Unique, Culture

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• This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.

  Shakti Gawain

  Appreciation, Morning, Loving Yourself

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Agriculture

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

  Thomas Merton

  Roots, Demand, Want

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• There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Drug, Hug, Stopping

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Lying, Ambition, Desire

  "Socratic Memorabilia". Book by Johann Georg Hamann, 1967.

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• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

  Louis Aragon

  Flower, Garden, Errors

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• I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

  Denise Mina

  London, Grew Up, Feeding

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• The first line in the first Gasland is: “I’m not a pessimist. I’ve always had a great deal of faith in people that we won’t succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we’ll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.” I have not lost that sense.

  Josh Fox

  People, Greed, Lines

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Do not let me hear
  Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
  Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
  Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
  The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
  Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Men, Endless

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

  Stephen Bayley

  Blood, Hands, Mind

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Negativity, Despair, Routine

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

  John Tillotson

  Wickedness, Kind, Distraction

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.184

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• ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Humorous, Holiday

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• My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Tattoo, New York, Years

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  Jeff Goodell

  Land, Would Be, Development

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• The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

  Cyprian

  Numbers, Mad, World

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• Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

  Jon Anderson

  Christmas, Perfectly Good, Shopping

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• Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Children, Vanity, Accomplishment

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• Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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