Circumstances Quote by Michael Helm Download Open image “Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.” — Michael Helm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Circumstances Paranoia Place and time Sanity Time
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher — Jim Butcher Copy Share
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures… — Louis Simpson Copy Share
Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified... — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Being positive helps you to keep away negative thoughts. And helps you to stand in adverse circumstances with the hope that in the end… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
