Top 100 Quotes About A Fanatic
#1. The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right.
Jim Payne
#4. Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling.
Daniel Defoe
#5. A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
Poul Anderson
#6. It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#7. Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real ... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand ...
Harold Bell Wright
#8. I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
George Orwell
#10. I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me ... a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
Vincent Van Gogh
#11. The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Andrew Dickson White
#12. A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
Will Rogers
#13. People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
Mark Clifton
#14. Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity.
Timothy Pina
#15. Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
#16. But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
George Saintsbury
#17. Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.
Alison Sweeney
#19. The world should take notice when someone ... with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
Rodrigue Tremblay
#20. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
William Wilberforce
#21. The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.
R.K. Narayan
#22. Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.
Jose Lezama Lima
#24. To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
#25. This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.
Josh Duhamel
#27. My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
Corey Taylor
#28. I'm not scared. The only thing that scares me is God. And guess what, Mina? God is not a fanatic.
Marjan Kamali
#30. A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones
#31. Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
#32. Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.
Martin Sheen
#33. Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter
Patrick F. McManus
#34. One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.
Martin Niemoller
#35. I'm such a fanatic about exercise that I opened my own gym, 3Sixty Cycling Studio, and I exercise almost every single day.
Bobbi Brown
#36. I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.
David Mixner
#37. I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
Dan Gable
#38. You can't do it right too often:author bob wyrick.
A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim.
Eric Hoffer
#39. We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.
Paul Scheer
#41. I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.
James Horner
#42. I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
Halle Berry
#43. The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde
#44. A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.
Ben Bova
#45. If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#46. A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
Richard Whately
#47. This present age is so flippant that if a man loves the Saviour he is styled a fanatic, and if he hates the powers of evil he is named a bigot.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.
David McGee
#49. I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic
Aamir Khan
#50. The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.
Cesar Chavez
#51. I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
Josh Helman
#52. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Voltaire
#53. FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.
Voltaire
#54. I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis
#56. Studios might not be able to figure out my leanings, but anyone who visits my blog or reads my Twitter feed or meets me in person will realize right away that I am a huge superhero fan and a fanatic about Superman in particular.
Chris Roberson
#57. A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.
Poul Anderson
#58. The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.
Daniel Pinkwater
#59. Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.
Amelie Nothomb
#60. Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
H.L. Mencken
#61. A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz
#62. It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.
Michael L. Brown
#63. We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic.
Erik Larson
#64. A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne
#65. I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
#67. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#68. I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
Cynthia Ozick
#69. If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.
Woody Allen
#70. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#71. I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions.
Steve Capus
#72. For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.
William Goldman
#73. In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.
Martin Rees
#74. - John is a dangerous fanatic.
- And you are not ? - asked Dagon.
- I'm just dangerous.
Michael Scott
#75. I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
Joe Nichols
#76. The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran
#77. They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
Guillermo Del Toro
#78. Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
Ben Elliot
#79. I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie
#80. Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
Edward Abbey
#81. Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
Armistead Maupin
#82. Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.
Cathryn Louis
#83. I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
#84. I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.
Patti LaBelle
#85. I thought I was very pretty without hair. Naked, more honest somehow. No glamor, just bald old me. I seldom wore wigs or hats. But some people must have thought I was an exhibitionist or a religious fanatic.
Persis Khambatta
#86. The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lloyd Billingsley
#87. Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
Cobi Jones
#88. Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.
Jay McInerney
#89. Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.
Marjane Satrapi
#90. I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.
Will Chase
#92. I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.
Steve McManaman
#93. Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.
Timothy Leary
#94. I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
Jesse Eisenberg
#95. I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
Seth Gordon
#96. Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.
Rob Urbinati
#97. I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
Rachel Zoe
#99. I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker
#100. Perhaps I should have seen that fanatic gleam, the quick response to a phrase, the magic sound of figures: Fifth Column, Third Force, Seventh Day. I might have saved us all a lot of trouble . . .
Graham Greene
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