Sanity Quotations

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

I was starting to question my own sanity (after the first two games). You don't pull on Superman's cape - we were over our heads in those games. But the kids stayed positive and that's important.

Now that the season's starting, we have something to get everything else off of our minds. Now we have games to worry about. We'll start focusing on what's important, and all the little things won't matter much - like our sanity and free time.

Have sanity with the necessary rather than insanity with the unnecessary.

I am happy to announce that sanity has prevailed and the match is on tomorrow (Tuesday).

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

I think that the bipartisan manner, however, you've conducted this impeachment trial is a welcome change from the events of the last year, ... We ask only that you give this case, and give this country, the constitutional stability and the political sanity which this country deserves.

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living.

We can always find creative ways to do things. But I hope by draft time we will be beyond that. As teams peer into the abyss, as they peer into the apocalypse, sanity will return. When the NFLPA and management truly recognize the nature of no agreement, their intelligence and rationality will force them into making a deal.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

Sanity is a compromise.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

Where sanity is there God is.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

The Supreme Court enjoyed renewed respect under Rehnquist's leadership, ... Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's allocation of power between the states and the federal government, and freedom in the public square to people of faith.

These days, knitting and crocheting clothing, accessories and home decor items is as much a sanity saver or a social outlet as they are a creative effort.

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

It was very important that you kept your sanity and didn't let the pressure of time affect what would be seen later on the screen.

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.

Some people will never learn, and that is the reason for which FIFA must intervene so as to return sanity to the game and keep these people away from the stadiums.

A lot of speculative excess is being blown out of this market here. It was long overdue, and finally a little more sanity is prevailing here right now.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time

Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.

The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.

not being driven nuts by a significant other always helps ones sanity and attitude. Trust me, of this I know what I speak.

It's in the best interests of this country that we continue to keep some common sense and sanity in the process here, and we've got to remember that not only is all of America looking and hoping and wondering about the future of this country and our ability to govern, but so is the world.

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.

Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's allocation of power between the states and the federal government, and freedom in the public square to people of faith.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

a good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past,a road to the future,the key to sanity in a totally insane world

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familar,eternalizing the poet's own poerception in unique and original verbal form.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

As a father of a 3-year-old at that time, I was left to question the sanity of this world and the people who share it,

Carolyn does a great job and is really my sanity check. She comes from a very strong college background as a trainer. She is a good person and believes in doing everything the right way.

I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.

He basically questioned the sanity of RIM, and said it wasn't acting very rationally. His prodding of the parties worked.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

I've had to find my sanity.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

All I want to be is normally insane.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.