Quotes of Furious - somelinesforyou

“ I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ”

- Lester Bangs

“ They think me mad — Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself! ”

- Herman Melville

“ He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. ”

- Sallust

“ One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? ”

- William Booth

“ I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing. ”

- Winifred Holtby

“ You can't just let nature run wild. ”

- Walt Disney

“ Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me. ”

- Franz Schubert

“ I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease. ”

- Paula Abdul

“ Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. ”

- H. H. Williams

“ I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. ”

- Richard Burton

“ The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pacific, creating a tall, furious cloud of steam. ”

- Robert Gross

“ I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious! ”

- Steven Wright

“ Get mad, then get over it. ”

- Colin Powell

“ Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. ”

- Anne Rice

“ With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road… ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds… ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ”

- Anita Loos

“ The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. ”

- Federico Garcia Lorca

“ To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. ”

- Alan W. Watts
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