Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

When you're 19, a threesome is normal. It's fun.

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

Why can't I say anything normal?

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

Why be normal? What's the point?

Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You dont have to go through the normal extradition process.

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

You would never understand, Kim. You think I'm normal; you wish I was.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Abajo hay miedo, sufrimiento y muerte. Hay guerra. Y todo parece ser tan normal que podríamos olvidarlo. Así es nuestro mundo. Todo parece ser normal, a pesar de que se están cometiendo crímenes todos los días, en grande o pequeña escala, junto a nosotros, en medio de nosotros o por medio de nosotros.

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

All that is called sadistic is not so. It is called sadistic in comparison to what is regarded as normal which has yet not been defined correctly.

And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

A little pain now and then is normal; The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay. Life goes on, but not forever, So why should we?

As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their lives, I always get a variation of the same answer. "It is not safe. They won't understand." My goal here is to provide a small piece of that gigantic puzzle of understanding. If this book helps someone with DID start a conversation with a supportive friend or family member, understanding will be increased.

As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?

Because I’m not normal,” I said. “You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.