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I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later. -- John Major
The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife. -- John Burnside
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife. -- John Burnside
Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you. -- Grant Morrison
My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a lot, so I can take it on the road with me and do it in a hotel room. -- Apolo Ohno
Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor. -- Herbert Lom
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. -- George Bernard Shaw
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. -- Havelock Ellis
I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila. -- Sukarno
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community. -- David Blunkett
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. -- Thomas Paine
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. -- Carl Jung
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. -- Colin Mochrie
Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions. -- Robin Wright
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. -- Robert De Niro
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. -- Mike Royko
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum. -- Romola Garai
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. -- John Lydon
Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care. -- Stephen Kinzer
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! -- Michael Caine
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists. -- Julian Baggini
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. -- Samuel Adams
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. -- Arthur Miller
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. -- Soren Kierkegaard
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering. -- Nathaniel Branden
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
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. -- Tony Abbott
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. -- Christopher Hitchens
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. -- Nellie Bly
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. -- Antonin Artaud
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. -- Deepak Chopra
Our asylum system is sick. -- Romano L. Mazzoli
America is a lunatic asylum. -- Ezra Pound
Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. -- James Lee Burke
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. -- Albert Einstein
The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum. -- Richard A. Rowland
America is an insane asylum run by the inmates. -- Lester Roloff
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. -- Erving Goffman
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. -- Mark Twain
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. -- Bobby Fischer
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death. -- Antonin Artaud
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. -- David Lloyd George
Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum. -- Laurence Stallings
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. -- A. E. Housman
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum. -- Franz Grillparzer
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. -- Werner Herzog
I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum -- Dennis Lehane
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. -- Marquis de Lafayette
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics. -- Voltaire
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. -- Herman Melville
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. -- John F. Carlson
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. -- George Bernard Shaw
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. -- Steve Jobs
If there's life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe's insane asylum. -- Voltaire
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. -- James L. Petigru
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief. -- Mandell Creighton
Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me -- Nicki Minaj
flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. -- Herman Melville
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. -- Thomas Paine
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. -- Sadegh Hedayat
We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody. -- Justine Larbalestier
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. -- Sophie Swetchine
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. -- Ben Okri
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum -- George Bernard Shaw
I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. -- Irakli Okruashvili
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. -- Michael Howard
The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. -- Jools Holland
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum. -- Jools Holland
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. -- Chris Cleave
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum. -- George Bernard Shaw
The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary. -- Geert Wilders
Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake. -- Darynda Jones
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. -- Olivia Wilde
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. -- Carl Jung
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. -- Mike Royko
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted. -- Michael Shurtleff
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum. -- H. L. Mencken
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate. -- James Bryant Conant
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. -- Herman Melville
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum. -- John Adams
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum -- George Bernard Shaw
The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. -- Nellie Bly
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum. -- George Bernard Shaw
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them. -- Lin Yutang
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane... -- Mark Twain
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum. -- Stefan Molyneux
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone. -- Charles Spurgeon
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. -- Peter Kreeft
There's nothing better than being in an asylum, if you're going to have a bunch of crazy people in an asylum, and they're all beautiful Hollywood actresses. -- John Carpenter
An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred -- Robert Frost
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts. -- Tony Abbott
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith. -- Bill Shuster
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. -- George Washington
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear. -- Julian Assange
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum. -- Kelly Miller
We did just leave an insane asylum,â? Hi agreed. â??For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada. -- Kathy Reichs
I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots. -- David Blunkett
The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels. -- Paolo Gentiloni
There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false. -- Lawrence Krauser
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison. -- Adolf Hitler
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears! -- Sophie Swetchine
Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers. -- Geert Wilders
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts. -- George Santayana
I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government. -- Feyisa Lilesa
We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society. -- Charles Kennedy
Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there. -- Belle Boyd
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. -- Samuel Adams
I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue? -- Edwidge Danticat
I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed. -- Jarod Kintz
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes. -- Swami Vivekananda
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone. -- Roberto Bolano
If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it. -- Mia Farrow
The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin. -- Herman Melville
I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark. -- Mark Collett
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon. -- Anthony Standen

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