Lunacies Quotes & Sayings

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom. — Hassan Nasrallah

The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla. — Edward Dahlberg

To me the mountain mass lies nobly mute,
The whences and the whys I don't dispute.
When Nature by and in herself was founded,
In purity the earthen sphere she rounded.
In summit and in gorge did pleasure seek,
And threaded cliff to cliff and peak to peak;
Then did she fashion sloping hills at peace
And gently down into the vale release.
All greens and grows, and to her gay abundance
Your swirling lunacies are sheer redundance. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How long do you think it will take us to cross?" Jefferson asks.
"According to the Major, about three and a half days," I say, looking at the sky. "It's Monday afternoon. Maybe we'll be across by Thursday at sunrise."
He whistles. "I was happier before I knew that."
"Think of it this way: Once we cross, we're in California. Give or take a mountain range or two."
Therese says, "Then we're practically almost there. — Rae Carson

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. — Jonathan Carroll

I like him not, nor stands it safe with us
To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
And he to England shall along with you:
The terms of our estate may not endure
Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
Out of his lunacies. — William Shakespeare

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. — John Braine

I'll keep your heart, Scar," he whispered. "If you keep mine. — A.C. Gaughen

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment! — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension. — Paul Halmos

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama. — Brian Boitano

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends. — Steve Martin