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madmen
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen. Alexandre Dumas
madmen autobiography
History is the autobiography of a madman. Alexander Herzen
madmen run saint self worst zeal
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope
madmen jackets sane
When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. Edgar Allan Poe
madmen
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo Jean Cocteau
madmen
Every madman considers everyone else a madman. Publilius Syrus
madmen has-beens
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? Samuel Richardson
madmen pursue impossibility
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities . Marcus Aurelius
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. Charles Caleb Colton
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
running eye two
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. Charles Dickens
running pain boys
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
running church-bells religion
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. Charles Studd
running europe usa
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period. Charles Stross
running wall real
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
saint has-beens ought
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
saint sinner
One can convert only a sinner, never a saint. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
saint sin confession
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. Bernard of Clairvaux
saint influence
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Bella Freud
saint
I am a Count, Not a Saint.
saint lost patron
Each lost day has its patron saint! Bret Harte
saint goodness goodness-of-god
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Brennan Manning
saint fans hours
I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. Brett Favre
saint impossible difficult
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature. English Proverbs
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
worst-enemy knees helping
Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'
worst unbelief
Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.
worst-moments care crowds
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care. Chris Brown
worst
Are you the sum total of your worst acts? Bryan Stevenson
worst-person worst persons
I'm the worst person about publicizing myself. Aida Turturro
worst-enemy highlander ifs
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies. Diana Gabaldon
worst-enemy modern-life cuban
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans. Ed Koch
worst-enemy your-best-friend reggae
Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy Bob Marley
worst-enemy choices mind
Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make. Demi Lovato
zealous failing conversion
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
zealous zeal ifs
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. Confucius
zealand
Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia? Lewis Carroll
zealand
Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating, Peter Jackson
zealous savior disciple
A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples. J. C. Ryle
zeal all-things
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. John Dryden
zealous ends commencement
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. Tacitus
zeal
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless. Samuel Johnson
zeal contention seems
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention. Thomas Aquinas