I Quotes
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
Source: The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Insanity is reality.”
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
Source: Bradbury Stories
“Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?”
“Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.”
“Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.”
“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Insanity is the insistence on meaning.”
“Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.”
“Insanity is total uncertainty.”
“Insanity isn’t some sudden snap—it’s a slow, creeping rot that starts in your mind and works its way into your bones.”
“Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love
Cause love's such an old fashioned word
and love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure”
“Insanity makes the rivers flow.”
Source: The Den of Shadows Quartet
“Insanity Max 30 is the hardest workout I've ever taught.”
“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
“Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change.”
Source: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
“Insanity, thy name is woman”
Source: Heaven Scent
“Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.”
Source: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
“Insanity, you are my craziest friend.”
“Insanity, you truly are my invisible friend.”
“Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.”
Source: The Day Room
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Insanlar birbirleriyle etkileşimde bulunmak isterler, doğrudan geribeslem alıp vermekten heyecan duyarlar ve başkaları tarafından nasıl göründüklerini bilmek, sahte görünümlerini çıkarıp atmak ve yakınlaşmak isterler.”
Source: Irvin D. Yalom 3-Book Set: Creatures of a Day / The Gift of Therapy / Staring at the Sun
“insanın bir şeye dokunması demek, kendisini o şeyle ilişkili bir duruma sokması demektir.”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free.”
“Insatiable is my desire for you,
Insane is my love you,
Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,
Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,
Soul is my offering for you,
Commitment is my promise to you,”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.”
Source: The Poems of Edward Young
“Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book
“Inscribed on the temple of Apollo”
“Inscription is an inherent property of matter and energy.”
Source: The Single Theory of Everything
“Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,
The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;
Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,
And Poets once had promis'd they should last.”
Source: The Temple of Fame
“Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.”
Source: I and Thou
“Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.”
“Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.”
“Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at least 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds.”
“Insecten zijn voor 75% uitgestorven hoor ik op het nieuws. Maar hebben ze het daar niet een beetje zelf naar gemaakt? Al dat gevit op de dierenwereld maar die insecten, dat zijn pas smeerlappen.”
“Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.”
“Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.”
“Insects crawled across my skin, legs skittering across my flesh, numbed paths of cold left in their wake. They were the creatures that heralded my ghosts, and I knew them well, yet the revulsion they caused in those moments far exceeded anything I’d felt before.”
Source: Chasing Azrael
“Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.”
“Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants are loaded with alkaloids so potent that they are the source of vincristine and vinblastine. These are drugs important in routines of chemotherapy for treating Hodgkin's disease and certain forms of leukemia.”
“Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."”
“Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.”
“Insecure and unfulfilled people cannot help but be jealous. Only inner security and individual fulfilment as a person will reduce jealousy until, one day, it disappears. It will be replaced by a calm confidence, a steady happiness, a strong resilience, and an interesting, beautiful life. If we keep our eyes on our own path in life, we will lose the egotistical pride which frequently accompanies success and also makes us vulnerable to a fall. When things go well, we will be grateful. When they do not, we will be patient. We will accept success with ease and perspective, and failure with tolerance.”
Source: Love's Longing
“Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.”
Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
“Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.”
“Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.”