When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm. — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority. — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts. — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity… — Mark Roberts Copy Share Image
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this… — Heather Bresch Copy Share Image
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a… — Henri Langlois Copy Share Image
The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that… — David Icke Copy Share Image
It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me… — Ndamukong Suh Copy Share Image
I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New… — John Butler Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress,… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family,… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
It's not the norm when creators have any protections with regards to creative control. And so it took some time, I think,… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could… — David Wong Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image