Hysterical Quotes - Page 3

• Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Commitment, Comfort, Sticks

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• We've both with Justine Beck done other things - and do other things - outside of Glassjaw. But Glassjaw's the most shining professional thing I've been part of. And the fact it's happening on the scale is both an honor and it's funny. Its hysterical. It's a fun ride. The whole world's different.

  Daryl Palumbo

  Fun, Shining, Honor

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• Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.

  Kid Rock

  Good Friend, Rocks, Mines

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• The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Fashion, Religious

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• Hysterical? Neuractic? I am all that ain't more than juggernaut!

  Fidel Castro

  Juggernaut

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• Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Home, Rivers

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• I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

  Louise Rennison

  May, Faces, Excited

  "Louise Rennison's greatest quotes ever" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him. “Your date appears to be hysterical,” Rene told me. “You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Coffee, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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• It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hair, Risk, Wizards

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Impact, Political

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• Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Wise, Spiritual, Two

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• Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Thinking, Should

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.76, Penguin

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• A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hair, Years, Volunteer

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.150, Scholastic

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• Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

  Lea Thompson

  People, Dawn, Littles

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• Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Alarms

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• In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

  Isaac Rosenfeld

  Family, Children, Giving

  Isaac Rosenfeld (1962). “An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties”

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• If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Promise, Suffering, Doe

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• Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

  Ezra Koenig

  Trying, Arguing, Express Yourself

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2010

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• Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Fall, Passion, People

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• Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Evil, Optimism, Tragedy

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• The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

  Mason Cooley

  Suffering, Littles, Too Much

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• I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Knives, Laughing

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• Why would you do that? (Delphine) Why do you think? (Jericho) Because I’m a bossy hag and you’d rather be enslaved to a man you hate than deal with me. (Delphine) You know…you’re not funny. (Jericho) I think I’m hysterical. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie." I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside—the double blonds—would want one, too?" For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. He snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Guy, Age, Way

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• It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh. Not hysterical laughter, but the helpless laughter of someone who's just heard something so funny they can't help but bubble over with it. She put her hands over her mouth and shook with it, the only sound was a low huffing that escaped through her fingers. There was another flash of blue fire from below. Denna froze midlaugh, then took her hands away from her mouth. She looked at me, her eyes wide, and spoke softly with a slight quaver in her voice, "Mooooo.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Laughter, Eye, Fire

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