Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Larkin

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

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.

Mark Twain

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

Studs Terkel

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

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.

Dick Thornburgh

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

Dick Thornburgh

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

Adam Ferguson

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Nelson Mandela

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Lao Tzu

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lynn Fontanne

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

Lauren Weisberger

I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

Alan Cohen

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

Nancy Horan

'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

Charles Bukowski

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Erica Jong

... poetry is fired by love ...

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

William Shakespeare

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The poetry is myself.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Czeslaw Milosz

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