Quotes of Feverish - somelinesforyou

“ Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. ”

- River Phoenix

“ Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. ”

- Dorothy Sayers

“ Only in Hollywood could that happen — it really was hysterical. But she is more interesting now than she was before. ”

- Winona Ryder

“ Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical. ”

- Peter Brimelow

“ I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years. ”

- Christa McAuliffe

“ Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail; We'll pull his plumes and take away his train, If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

“ Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy. ”

- Richard Lester

“ The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ”

- Otto Herman Kahn

“ 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

“ A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised. ”

- Carl Bernstein

“ This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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