(42 quotes found)
“Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .”
Emily Dickinson
“No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the sane dog's ear that is bitten off”
Burmese Proverb
“All grocery stores used to be closed on Sunday, ... There's the sane world and the insane world - I choose to live in the sane world.”
David Gilmour
“After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summer camp right after my dad's death. But when I hit 12, 13, that was it. I hated my mom's boyfriend, and there was a lot of control on me. I didn't like that, so I rebelled.”
Lisa Marie Presley
“I'm not crazy, I'm sanity challenged.”
Rufus Rhoden
“What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.”
Anatole France
“It still remains not a very wise, or safe, or even sane policy to try to liberate a village by destroying it,”
John Buchanan
“It's made all the difference. We're all more sane. We're less panicked and we're less tired, at least before the festival ends on Sunday.”
Dale Pollock
“I think it's important to have at least one sane person in the locker room, ... What do we get out of it if I come to blows with him? Nothing. The only thing that would have come out of me punching him or choking him is more craziness.”
Donovan McNabb