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.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

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.

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.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

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

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

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

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

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

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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.

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.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

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

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

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 organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

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 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 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.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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.

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

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.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

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.

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.

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.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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.

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

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.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

I've had to find my sanity.

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

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.