Frantic Quotes

105 Frantic quotes by 94 unique authors

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our… — Winston Churchill
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes,… — Saul Bellow
Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime.… — Daniel Goleman
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to… — Brian Greene
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came… — Meir Kahane
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the… — Anne Lamott
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without… — George Sand
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and… — Charlotte Bronte
When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic.… — Steven Wright
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular… — Bill Bryson
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will… — Marianne Williamson
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we… — Sharon Salzberg
Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded. Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips tightly together, his eyes bulging out. He was taking frantic,… — Frank Peretti
This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't… — Deb Caletti
I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other… — Herman Melville
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear.… — Jerry Spinelli
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If… — Richard Wright
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good… — Louise Penny
There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet. — Richelle Mead
My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin,… — Virginia C. Andrews
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow,… — Steven Erikson
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people… — Brenda Ueland
Then—as he was talking—a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he… — Ken Kesey

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