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This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

To Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.' It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear [...] I was involved in the 1994 elections, and I will never forget the arrogance of the Democrats back then, and how they refused to accept the electoral reality facing them. It is no different today.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in anger you become mad. Anger has happened before, it is happening now, but now add a new element to it, the element of understanding -- and then the quality will change. Then, by and by, you will see that the more you understand anger, the less it happens. And when you understand it perfectly, it disappears. Understanding is like heat. When the heat comes to a particular point -- one hundred degrees -- the water disappears.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

We all are born mad. Some remain so.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.