Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

There is no normal life, there's just life.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.

There's news that happens in different spheres and can be made just as funny, but it's not necessarily in the normal news medium.

'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes.

The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.

Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum.

To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.