Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

Hattie McDaniel

[Nearly Sane]

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Millicent Fawcett

[Nearly Sane]

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Harriet Martineau (1837)

[Nearly Sane]

Gin a body meet a body
Flyin' through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?

James Clerk Maxwell

[Nearly Sane]

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Nearly Sane]

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Simon Callow

[Nearly Sane]

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Idries Shah

[Nearly Sane]

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

James Weldon Johnson

[Nearly Sane]

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

Isabella Rossellini

[Nearly Sane]

What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

Pauline Kael

[Nearly Sane]

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

[Nearly Sane]

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

Françoise Sagan

[Nearly Sane]

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!


Erich Maria Remarque

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[Nearly Sane]

Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

Anna Akhmatova

[Nearly Sane]

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

Ambrose Bierce

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[Nearly Sane]

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

Pearl S. Buck

[Nearly Sane]

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

Emma Goldman

[Nearly Sane]

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Muhammad Yunus

[Nearly Sane]

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Nearly Sane]

You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a sleeping pill. When it wears off, you have to live without its help.

Susan Hayward

[SteveH]

I always think he looks like somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it.
Anna Soubry (one of the few good Tories, when she was one - she now supports Labour) on Nigel Farage,

[Nearly Sane]

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

Olivia de Havilland

[Nearly Sane]

We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

Thurgood Marshall