Frantic Quotes

105 Frantic quotes by 94 unique authors

There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the… — Unknown Author
The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was… — John Updike
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… — Christa McAuliffe
I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to… — Dave Barry
For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had… — Kelly McGillis
In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and… — Richard J. Foster
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting… — David Brooks
Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen… — Eugene H. Peterson
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives,… — Rolf Dobelli
I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to… — Matthew McConaughey
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with… — Samuel Beckett
In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of… — Alexander Lowen
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. — Michel de Montaigne
What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously… — James Dobson
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle… — Alfred Kazin
In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its… — Paul Davies
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words… — Winston Churchill
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance… — Anne Ortlund
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living. — Doris Janzen Longacre
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic… — William Kittredge

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