#irrational

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#distortions #irrational #like #lot #my self

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is. ↗

— Julien Smith

#anxiety #courage #courageous #facing-fear #fear

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#arrogance #behavior #demonstrate #irrational #must

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#body #collective #comes #deep #irrational

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. ↗

— Martin Amis

#atheism #dignity #irrationality #reason #religion

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

#appreciate #assumptions #body #demon #disease

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#bomb #dispatched #i #iran #irrationality

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#anxiety #balanced #fear #happens #happy