Sane Quotes - Page 17

• I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Wish, Passionate

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. March 7, 2010.

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• No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises, and terrible dangers in it. We desperately need a true road map, not nice feelings, if we are to get home. It is true, as people often say, that "hell just feels unreal, impossible." Yes. So does Auschwitz. So does Calvary.

  Peter Kreeft

  Nice, Home, Reality

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Appologetics”, p.44, Ignatius Press

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• The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

  Dean Koontz

  Quality, Inability, Details

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.

  Michael Steele

  Jobs, Smart, Order

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• Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Rights, Long, Principles

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• Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.

  Andrew Tudor

  Doors, Asking Why, Soul

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• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Night, Men

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• Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

  Diane Sawyer

  Smart, Four, Needs

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• Beware by whom you are called sane.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Christopher Maurer, Walter Inglis Anderson (2003). “Fortune's Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

  John Myers

  Believe, Men, Host

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• The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

  Maureen Dowd

  Bored, Political, Insane

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• Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives

  Oliver James

  Future, Mean, Heart

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• Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane.

  Filo Tiatia

  Children, Long, Work Out

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

  Joseph Heller

  Depression, Men, Insane

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• Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

  Eyedea

  Play, Poet

  Song: Liquid Sovereignty

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• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Laughing

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.166, Hayes Barton Press

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• If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, God

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.123, Race Point Publishing

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• …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

  Kate Bornstein

  Black And White, Rainbow, Gender

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.133, Routledge

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• Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

  Joe Budden

  Passionate, Too Much, Music Love

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• It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Attitude, Insane World, Self

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• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Depression, Should Have, Mental Illness

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• Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

  Salo Flohr

  Chess, Fischer

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• Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Thinking, Humanity

  Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub

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