Insane Quotes - Page 27

• We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Elements, Court

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• I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

  Jack Ohman

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Resistance, Power Of Now, Power Of Now Book

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Empires, Violence

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Insanity, Body, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Majority, Vote, Hospitals

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

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Purple, Suits

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• Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.

  Victoria Moran

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

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• We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

  William S. Burroughs

  Leader, Faces, Facts

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• I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Training, Stuff, Normal

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• Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

  Vanna Bonta

  War, World, Matter

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• Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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• To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

  Teresa Amabile

  Ideas, Creative, Appropriate

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• I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an actress. It just happened. It has evolved into an insane passion... a creative outlet. But nothing more. It's my hobby... one of the ways I express myself as an artist. And the day it becomes a job... a career... I will quit...

  Shailene Woodley

  Jobs, Passion, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

  Roddy McDowall

  Children, Believe, Boys

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Insane World, Mass Culture

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• The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Men, Revolution, He Man

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• Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

  Larry Page

  Successful, Ideas, Innovation

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• Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.

  Andy Roddick

  Home, Player, Thinking

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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  Yahoo Serious

  Challenges, Amusing, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

  Colin Mochrie

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?""You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Nurse, Missing

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

  Sonny Rollins

  Suicide, Thinking, Using Resources

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• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Laughter, Pain, Heart

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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• The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, World, Inmates

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