Insane Quotes - Page 40

• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

  Ellie Goulding

  Introspective

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

  Ashley Greene

  Workaholic, Feels, Bits

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• There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

  Mark Haddon

  Cities, Oxford, Space

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• The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

  Tom Hanks

  Blessed, People, Forever

  "Desert island risks", www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

  Hermann Hesse

  Insanity, Method, Sanity

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• We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Reality, Axes, People

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• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

  Josh Hutcherson

  Funny, Interesting, Pockets

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Nature, Humorous, Profound

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hurt, Artist, People

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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Cities, San Francisco, People

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.5033, e-artnow

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• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Asylums, Illness, Results

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

  Jacques Lacan

  Writing, Wind, Flying

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• Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

  James Lankford

  Crush, Liberty, Immigration

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  H. L. Mencken

  Humorous, Average, America

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• The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which.

  Helen Mirren

  Two, Clothes, Dollars

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2011.

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• Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Confused, Humorous, Profound

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• The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Odds, Knowing

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

  Alfred de Musset

  Wisdom, Pain, Humorous

  Alfred de Musset, Wilhelm Hauff (1925). “Two fables”

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• The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Cynical, Religion

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