Witnessed Mad Quotes & Sayings

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. — Ludwig Von Mises

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables! — Fernando Pessoa

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life. — Adam Hicks

All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher. — M.F. Moonzajer

This may read like a mad journey through some of the most dangerous places on earth, but it is much more than that as well. Sheets witnessed most of the wars, disasters, and revolutions that followed the end of communism, and his accounts of them
from Chechnya to Chernobyl, and from Abkhazia to Afghanistan
serve as a passionate but considered obituary for the vanished Soviet empire. — Oliver Bullough

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house. — Eli Roth

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of. — Stewart Cink

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life. — Jonathan Haidt

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day. — Peter Matthiessen

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.' — Gore Vidal

You might be a redneck if you're a lite beer drinker, because you start drinking when it gets light. — Jeff Foxworthy

It's always been him saving me ... and I'm not used to that. — Ann Aguirre

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. — Michael Chabon

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — W. H. Auden

I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead. — Wesley J. Smith

He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing. — Diana Gabaldon