Obsession Quotes - page 2

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. (Friedrich Schlegel)
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness. View quote
Emil Cioran
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk. View quote
Phil Brooks
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face. View quote
Claude Monet
Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing. View quote
John Waters
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. View quote
Georges Bernanos
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. (John Steinbeck)
That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity. View quote
Penn Jillette
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. View quote
Douglas Adams
From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I'm not a psychiatrist - I don't know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession. View quote
Hillary Clinton
We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride. View quote
José Mourinho
In our culture, security has become an obsession. View quote
Ben Carson
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession. View quote
Mary Roach
I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that. View quote
Neal Shusterman
You know, Mouse, I envy the captain. He's got a mission. And his obsession precludes all that wondering about what other people think of him. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. (Bong Joon-ho)
Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist. View quote
Walter Moers
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. View quote
Geneen Roth
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
Any obsession is dangerous. View quote
Christina Ricci