Paranoias Quotes & Sayings

Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you. — Haj Amin Al-Husseini

The men she had known at university, with their practised uncouthness, their masculine argumentation, the way they assumed ownership of the women they lassoed into their grasp. She had endured them, her series of clever boyfriends, who expected her to pick up their towels and edit their poor prose. They had all exemplified the modish paranoias of their age. They were conceited over-achievers and smugly privileged. It had been a relief to fly away, — Gail Jones

Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that pains are C-fibres, then I ought no longer to have any room for the thought that 'they' might come apart. His argument is that, since pains aren't identified via some contingent description, but in terms of how they feel, I have no good way of constructing a possible world, so to speak, where C-fibres are present yet pains absent. — David Papineau

Bring a mirror and let a dirty face recognize itself. — Bernard Of Clairvaux, Saint

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program ... So far this has been a very successful rehab. — Peter Hobson

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life! — Garth Brooks

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way. — Simon Hoggart

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not. — Ville Valo

Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head. — Craig Finn

You don't need to remind me how easy it is to slough off and become lazy. Oh, I know how sweet the temptation is.
So modernity has brought with it an endless internal mental conflict between stern, rather parental inner voices and lazy childish ones. Unfortunately, these two voices, which have functioned as opposites, checking each other for centuries, have been confounded into idiotic agreement and collusion with the appearance of digital network technology. — Jaron Lanier

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. — Winston Churchill

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did. — Kapil Dev

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope. — James Salter

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

One of the reasons humans tended toward insanity was the weight of fear they carried. The blessings of storytelling, the handing down of knowledge and warnings, had a flip side. People carried the collective fears of their history, the biases of those long dead, the paranoias of other ages. Anna flashed — Nevada Barr

I don't want children anyway,' Caz says. 'So I'm getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out, and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want that option. This is pointless. — Caitlin Moran