Sane Quotes - Page 9

• This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.

  Werner Herzog

  Climate, Daredevil, Not Interested

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Self, Perfect

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• Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Imagination, Heaven, Communion

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.334, e-artnow

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• The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

  Agnes Repplier

  Past, Foolish, Subtle

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• Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

  Tom Lehrer

  Mean, Laughing, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?

  Michael Dowd

  Children, Mind, Teeth

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• Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.

  Jon Foreman

  Stars, Pain, Home

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• Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Travel, Destiny

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.28, Great West Books

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• Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Action, Wherever You Are

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “The life and meaning of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Life is love, heartache and strain,
  Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

  O.C.

  Rap, Heartache, Hip Hop

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• I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Horse, Feel Better

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• The country has gone sane and got back to horses.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Horse, Gone

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• Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves.

  John Muir

  Stress, Dust, Hot

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.558, e-artnow

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• By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Successful, Blood

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• The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

  Mal Peet

  Soccer, Children, Book

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• The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Insanity, Care

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.

  Dorothy Day

  Voice, People, Evil

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Beef

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

  E. W. Howe

  Party, Food, People

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• for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Country, Heart, Looks

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• Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have.

  Anne Morice

  People, Assuming, Logical

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Growing Up, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Sake, States, Following

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• Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Evil, Imbalance, Way

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Chains, Dangerous

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