Mania Quotes

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If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania… — Ayn Rand
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of… — Tom Peters
Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The… — Swami Vivekananda
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form… — Terence McKenna
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy… — Ezra Koenig
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania. — Heitor Villa-Lobos
I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know… — Peter Andre
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. — Juan Gabriel
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. — Thomas Merton
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has… — Gustave Flaubert
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a… — Soren Kierkegaard
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins. — Henry James
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and… — George Mikes
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what. — Samuel Beckett
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood. — Max Landis
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. — Gustave Flaubert
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale… — James Buchan
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before… — Eric Alterman

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