Sane Quotes - Page 3

• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Noble, Deeds, Chaos

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2009). “Leviathan”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Children, Mean

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• That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Doe, Sanity

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Fantasy, Discworld

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• When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Tasks

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• It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mom, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Long, Healthy, Down And

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Important, Messages

  "Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son?". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1990.

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• You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Lonely, Couple

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Men, Insecurity

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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

  Horace Mann

  Insane, Majority, Vote

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.184

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• Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, World, Littles

  Haruki Murakami (2017). “Men Without Women: Stories”, p.164, Knopf

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• You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Differences, People

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• Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

  Martin Mayer

  Men, Widows, Handsome

  Martin Mayer (1985). “The money bazaars: understanding the banking revolution around us”, Signet

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• The more intelligent, the less sane

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Ignorance In 1984

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• I was in college - Carnegie Mellon, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh was appealing to me - and I personally feel that whole world of what we used to call "college radio" is a big part of what kept me sane through a period where I stopped dating, I felt like a freak, I felt like no girl would like me. You know, a very adolescent response to losing my hair. I turned to obsessing about The Replacements and The Smiths and R.E.M. and getting further into The Velvet Underground. People who, in my sheltered suburban life, I knew of, but didn't know fully.

  Greg Mottola

  Girl, College, People

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• Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

  Unknown

  Insanity, Insane, Reactions

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• Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

  Arthur Judson

  Christian, Prayer, Men

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• It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

  Jon Ronson

  Crazy, People, Harder

  "The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry". Book by Jon Ronson, May 12, 2011.

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• Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

  Horace

  Insanity, Fool

  Horace (1853). “Opera omnia”, p.461

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• Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

  Chris Carmack

  Jobs, Acting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

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• I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  New York, Nice, People

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• A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

  Bruce Cockburn

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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