Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Erich Fromm

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Rudy Giuliani

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Lisa Cholodenko

I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.

Susan Moeller

We've all been in a situation where you've had some failed love affair ... and then you wallow in a sad song afterward, ... Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War & Death.

Norman Foster

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

Liu Jianchao

We believe that it remains to be the internal affairs of countries to explore a development road suitable for their own conditions. We respect their choices.

Eric Draper

What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the population projection rules, and those are two key concepts that the state Department of Community Affairs and counties use to determine whether a development is appropriate.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Margarita Simonyan

We're going to do international news and are trying to do a Russian angle on them, trying to show what impact international affairs have on Russia and we will also try to show interesting things about Russia, what is happening here, documentaries, interesting people and places, something that might be new to our audience.

Jason Silva

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

Laura Fraser

I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

Charles Bukowski

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

William Shakespeare

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Erica Jong

... poetry is fired by love ...

Gwendolyn Brooks

The poetry is myself.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.