Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
Alastair Campbell
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Albrecht Durer
Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Alcuin
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.
Alexandra Daddario
In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.
Alexandra Fuller
The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?
Alice Eve
To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
Alija Izetbegovic
Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.
Allan Gurganus
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.
Amala Akkineni
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce
I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'
Amrita Acharia
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
It's an incredible experience to interact with fans in first person, get immediate responses to your music and see the madness that your music creates.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Success can create more madness than happiness.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
It's like Richard Petty always said, 'Racing isn't the job. That's where we get away from our job.' That's where we go out and have fun and get away from the madness. No one can bother you in there. There's no phones, no interviews - it's just you, driving.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.
When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over Destiny's Child at their peak was just madness to me.
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
