The Statistics on Sanity

The Statistics on Sanity

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”

― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

― George Carlin

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

― W.C. Fields

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”

― Charles M. Schulz

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

― Lewis Carroll

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”

― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"

"Yes," said Harry stiffly.

"Yes, sir."

"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."

The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.

"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”

― Cassandra Clare

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”

― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

― Markus Herz

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”

― Lemony Snicket

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”

― C.E.M. Joad

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”

― Rita Mae Brown

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."

"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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Addiction Quotes - We don't have a mobile phone. The mobile phone has us “Why do large observational studies such as that of Fiorentine and Moos seem to suggest that AA is effective, while smaller controlled studies like those of the Brandsma, Walsh, and others included in the Cochrane Review do not? The likely explanation is simple: people stay in AA if they’re getting better and leave if they aren’t. This is understandable. If you are able to stop drinking, then continuing to attend AA is a comfortable and affirming choice. If you struggle with drinking and can’t make use of the AA approach, then you are less likely to keep attending. Over the long term, the people who remain in AA are, by definition, the success stories. But they represent a very small slice of the people who start there; as we will see shortly, the dropout rate from AA is extremely high. These facts—that AA works for the diehards and fails for the dropouts—are perennially misunderstood by the press a...

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Girls Quotes - A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy

Girls Quotes - A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy “How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.” ― Emma Cline “It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea. It's all down to girls, one way or another.” ― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance “Speaking of my things, you weren't actually using that darling little study were you?" she asked sweetly. Her mate's eyes narrowed. "Why?" "Because I am commandeering it for my closet." "Closet? My study...

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