Sane Quotes - Page 23

• I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia

  Lisa Kleypas

  Insane, Jake, Without You

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• If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

  Richard Rohr

  Giving, Mind, Want

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Thinking, Taught Us

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• He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

  Ovid

  Sanity, Simulate

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• Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

  Brent L. Top

  Children, Teaching, Important

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• Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

  Alan Furst

  Dog, Believe, Talking

  Alan Furst (2008). “Dark Star: A Novel”, p.35, Random House

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• I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

  Alexander Girard

  Irrational, Reasonable, Frivolity

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• Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Art, Cities

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Fear, Views

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• Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Mad, Sanity

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Insane, Mets

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 15, 2001.

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• Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

  Tori Amos

  Father, Evil, Lucifer

  Song: Father Lucifer, Album: Boys for Pele, 1996

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• Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Real

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.377, A&C Black

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• To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

  Thomas Ligotti

  Memories, Dark, Hysteria

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• Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane.

  Richelle Mead

  Sexy, Thinking, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.969, Penguin

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• Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Memories, Eye

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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• I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

  E. Lockhart

  Dog, Limits, Mental Health

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.10, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fear, Men, Nuts

  "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks".

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• Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ambition, Fate, Ties

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.

  Jen Lancaster

  Thinking, Self, Keys

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• And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

  Meg Cabot

  Opposites, Ideas, Fairy Tale

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.

  Sean Young

  Thinking

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

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• The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Rain, Media

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