#insane

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#go #house #housekeeping #i #incredibly

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#could #did #i #insane #island

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #cared #convinced #creatures #desire

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#been #before #faintest #had #i

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#completely #could #how #i #insane

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#companies #credit #high #including #insanely

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#between #do you know #fine #fine line #function

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. ↗

— Edie Falco

#celebration #household #insane #laughter

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. ↗

— Harry Browne

#ending #federal #federal government #found #freeing

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#childhood #clearly #crashing #designed #freeway