Sane Quotes - Page 7

• My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

  Billy Joel

  Crazy, Being Crazy, My Friends

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• This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Trade, Seems

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• For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving Up, Important, Clarity

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Mind, Evidence

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Simple, Perfection

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• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, White, House

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• If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.

  Andrea Gibson

  Would Be, Ifs

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.9, Penguin

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• Theater helps people keep sane.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  People, Helping, Theater

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• People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.

  Julie Plec

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

  Jacque Fresco

  Space, Together, Earth

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• No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Men, Facts

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• The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

  Laozi

  Tests, Accepting, Persons

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• The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Home, Together, Mountain

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• I could be a party girl, dating whoever I want and being reckless, but I like being in a relationship. When you have somebody who grounds you and keeps you sane, it helps.

  Eva Longoria

  Girl, Party, Dating

  "All About Eva". Interview with Jennifer Graham, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 25, 2005.

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• I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend.

  Gene Simmons

  Girlfriend, Party, Guy

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• I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Thinking, Ordinary, Dresses

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• No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Activism, Humans

  Source: libcom.org

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• I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Men, People

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Leisure, Cases

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

  Dave Barry

  Animal, Snakes, Florida

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off from the external action at all. For example, the bazaar in which the Sufis were very strong always dominated economic life in Islamic world. They could give a much more sane and Islamic form of activity when the economic life of Islam moved out of the bazaar to new parts of Islamic cities with modernized Muslims, who took it in another light and it became very, very anti Islamic, and much against many of the most profound practices of Islamic societies.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Strong, Islamic, Cutting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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