Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.

Edna Ferber

[Nearly Sane]

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

[Nearly Sane]

Well behaved women do not make history.

Mae West

[Nearly Sane]

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

[Nearly Sane]

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

[Nearly Sane]

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Salvatore Quasimodo

[Nearly Sane]

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

Joe Strummer

[Nearly Sane]

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

Dorothy Parker

[Nearly Sane]

“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people.

If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for me right here at home. “

- Muhammad Ali

[Nearly Sane]

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Will Cuppy

[Nearly Sane]

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

William Wilberforce

[Aruntraveller]

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. - Federico Garcia Lorca

[Nearly Sane]

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Martin Amis

[Nearly Sane]

Some leaders are born women.

Geraldine Ferraro

[Nearly Sane]

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Donald M. MacKinnon

[Nearly Sane]

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[Nearly Sane]

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

[Nearly Sane]

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Temple Grandin

[Nearly Sane]

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[Nearly Sane]

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx

[Nearly Sane]

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

James Boswell

[Gordon]

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

H L Mencken

[Nearly Sane]

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[Gordon]

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

Aristotle