Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

One thing is to have the protection of human rights for homosexuals and quite something else is this promotion of indecency. It would be immoral and unethical to deny the homosexuals their human rights. But it is also immoral to consider disorders as normal. None of these deviances are biological. They are acquired by fantasizing about them.

On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal... but forget so many important parts of me?

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.

Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.

Probably. Definitely. I love to play finals. I love to play on the big stadiums. This is something really special. It doesn't feel like just a normal tournament for me - it's something more, more, more.

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

Ser un chico normal de 22 años, probablemente no es tan divertido como ser parte de One Direction.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.