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Quotes About Sane

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.
~ Chris Carmack
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.
~ Peter Lovesey
There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.
~ Bill Callahan
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
~ Gene Wilder
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
~ Jennifer Granholm
So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.
~ Ray Bradbury
O piloto] Orr era louco e podia ser dado por incapaz. Bastava-lhe pedir, e a partir do momento em que o fizesse deixaria de ser louco e teria de participar em novas missões. Seria louco se participasse em novas missões e mentalmente são se não o fizesse, mas neste último caso teria de voltar a voar. Se o fizesse, seria louco e não teria de o fazer, mas se não quisesse, estaria em plena posse das faculdades mentais e deveria fazê-lo.
~ Joseph Heller
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
~ Wendell Berry
Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
~ Daniel Klein
Order," Newt continued. "Order. You say that bloody word over and over in your shuck head. Reason we're all sane around here is 'cause we work our butts off and mantain order. Order's the reason we put Ben out--can't have loonies runnin' around tryin' to kill people, now can we? Order. Last thing we need is you screwin' that up.
~ James Dashner
there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!
~ Agatha Christie
Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.
~ Agatha Christie
The sane universities never went near this stuff, but Carnegie Mellon gave us explicit license to break the mold.
~ Randy Pausch
Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.
~ Randy Shilts
Mart had been of the total conviction that life was wholly soluble in terms of the external world. If a man had something good and useful to do in shaping the world to his own dream, he would be a sane and happy man.
~ Raymond F. Jones
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
~ Noam Chomsky
Only religious faith is a strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise sane and decent people.
~ Richard Dawkins
No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.
~ H. L. Mencken
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
~ Mark Twain
Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
~ Arthur Judson
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
~ Martin Mayer
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
~ Henry David Thoreau