Lunatic Quotes - Page 9

• I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Ungrateful, Said

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth.
  A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Doe, Lunatic Asylums

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

  Arnold Bennett

  Baby, Memories, Past

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

  Mel White

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

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• To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

  Louise Wilder

  Garden, Rocks, Landscape

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• Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

  Thomas Aquinas

  Liars, Christ, Lord

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

  Paddy Considine

  Blow, Thinking, People

  "Dark star". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

  Geneen Roth

  Hate, Love You, Peaceful

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  May, Common, Lord

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• "Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Order, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.152, Advaita Ashrama

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• The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Soul, Age, Phases

  "Doomed". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, October 8, 2013.

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• When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mind, Gone

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

  Philip Berrigan

  Lying, Tyrants, People

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• I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

  Graham Coxon

  Jeans, Shoes, Boots

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial?

  Dennis Miller

  Nice, Believe, Moving

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• One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

  Jack Welch

  Thoughtful, Fringe, Careful

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Broken, Done

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Flower, Lapses, Looks

  "Why We Love Sarah Jessica Parker" by Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

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• Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Pressure, Valve, Rail

  Source: www.levity.com

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• Ask a glass of water why it pities
  the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

  Terrance Hayes

  Dog, Rain, Glasses

  Terrance Hayes (2010). “Lighthead”, p.14, Penguin

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• The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

  Mandell Creighton

  Education, Men, Lunatic Asylums

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• My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.

  Catherine Martin

  Running, Husband, Order

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