Quotes of: Sane-people Keyword

As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

Gail Collins

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

The Golden Notebook

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

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.

The Light Fantastic

Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we want to be that, with no threat of censure or violence. Safe gender is going as far in any direction as we wish, With no threat to our health, or anyone else’s. Safe gender is not being pressu...

Kate Bornstein

No family is sane, is it?

Rebecca Hall

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

Between the Spark and the Burn

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

There Once Was A Boy

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Bram Stoker

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Arthur Boyd

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people.

The Drowning Girl

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying h...

The World According to Garp

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

The Sane Society

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in a...

The Humans

As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or what is imagination versus undiscovered truth, but ultimately, it is my job to make you as unsure as I am.

Benjamin

When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.

It’s (Not That) Complicated: How to Relate to Guys in a Healthy, Sane, and Biblical Way

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family