Approximating Area Quotes & Sayings

They have alls these laws and social boundaries to keep the worst of them in check. The problem is, villains and bullies just ignore that kind of thing. — Charles De Lint

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice. — Bum Phillips

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. — Susan Sontag

You have to accept this reality as the madhouse walls bulge break and the terrified insane flood our ugly streets. you have to accept terrible reality. — Charles Bukowski

You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it. — Cath Crowley

Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility. — Stewart Stafford

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater. — Wallace Shawn

It was a very imaginative, bitey possum and also a total douche-canoe. — Jenny Lawson

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind. — Baron D'Holbach

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon. — Hal Higdon

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist. — Czeslaw Milosz

Land lasts longer than blood or love. It is not like a river. — Annick Smith

In his mother's honor, vowing not to commit the "fashionable stupidity" of ignoring things he didn't understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real. — Sol Luckman

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble. — Ann Aguirre