Sanity Quotes

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

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

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

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.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

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

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

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!

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

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

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

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.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

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

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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.