Normal Quotes - Page 20

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.

I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough for that.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

We can't allow ourselves to become inured to terrorist attacks to see it as the new normal.

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

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

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find its equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium.

Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

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.

Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became a Canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. Now you can. So I had to be one or the other. But the reason I became a Canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

It is normal to be nervous.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.