Sanity Quotes
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.
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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.
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Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.
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Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
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If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
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There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.
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What is love, if not the abandonment of all sanity, all dignity?
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The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?
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One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
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Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.
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Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.
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One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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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%.
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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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they worry about my sanity i join with them on that
