Amuck Quotes

Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates: We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers. - Ann Jones

They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body. - Thomas Carlyle

OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. - Ambrose Bierce

God is exaggeration run amuck George H. - Edwin A Robinson

Big plans, elaborate schemes and grand designs sort of messily bleeding into one another [have] created Chicago's reputation for rawness. But that rawness is just ambition-sometimes ambition run amuck-that has acquired a life of its own. - Pat Colander