Sanity Quotes - Page 7

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

  James MacArthur

  Winning, Guy, World

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• You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

  Criss Jami

  Mom, Mother, Knuckleheads

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Country, Flags

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.127, Counterpoint

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• For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Simple, Sight

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• And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Sweet, Strong, Mistake

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Book, Debt

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• There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Men, Insanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.

  Gini Koch

  Crazy, Working A Lot

  Gini Koch (2015). “Alien Separation”, p.109, Penguin

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• You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

  Stephen Levine

  Mean, Cutting, Ideas

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• We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Nature, Mean

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library

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• Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.

  Thomas Sowell

  Keys, Decision, Needs

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• Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

  Jose Mujica

  Solitude, Trying, Down And

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• 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.

  Rachel McAdams

  Trying, Stories, Want

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mountain, Littles, Madness

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• I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

  Studs Terkel

  Drinking, Roots, Water

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

  Audrina Patridge

  Beach, Book, Trying

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• 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.

  Judge Reinhold

  Girl, Home, Kids

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• There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

  Megan Gallagher

  Differences, Insanity, Bigs

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• Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Men, Green World

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America

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

  Philip Larkin

  Affair, Poetry Is, Seeing

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

  Gangaji

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

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• I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this.

  Dan Savage

  Past, Guy, Advice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

  John Carpenter

  Loss

  Source: collider.com

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