Sane Quotes - Page 25

• So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.

  Linus Torvalds

  Support, Would Be, Able

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• Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

  John Murray

  Race, Order, Solitude

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• Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Nature, Two, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, People

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.396, Psychology Press

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• What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cat, Thinking, Ducks

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• Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Numbers, Doors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

  Claudia Gray

  Love You, People, Kind

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• Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Reality, Special

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.292, Random House

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• Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.

  Caleb Carr

  Fall, Echoes, Talking

  Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.157, Random House

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• According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

  Leo Strauss

  Wise, Ignorance, Issues

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

  Leo Buscaglia

  Crazy, Insanity, World

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• Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Giving Up, People, Regulation

  Hacker News comment, news.ycombinator.com. Apr 12, 2012.

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• The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

  Henry Lawson

  Cutting, Men, Drunk

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

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• Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sometimes, Illusion

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• Okay, I’m dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from…from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary) (Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.) Oh, like I’m any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Stress, Mind

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• And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Missing, Solitude, Fleeting

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Feb 12, 2012

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• I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

  Bessie Head

  Mean, Light, Sky

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.

  Paul Auster

  Groups, Denial, Rooms

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Odds, Hatred

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

  George Orwell

  Party, Reality, Views

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• The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Determination, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.373, Modern Library

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• The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

  Kingsley Amis

  Knowing, May, Rewards

  1984 Stanley and the Women, ch.2.

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• I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

  Kevin Systrom

  Inspiring, Running, Crazy

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• In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

  Gladys Mitchell

  Murder, Killing, Reactions

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• When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Insane, Patterns, Problem

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.65, Delacorte Press

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