A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Sanity is madness put to good use.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
I'm interested in characters that have just a touch of madness.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
