If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm;… — Pete Burns Copy Share Image
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception. — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time,… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values… — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is… — Andrea Barthwell Copy Share Image
You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters, — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
Over the past three decades, markets and market thinking have been reaching into spheres of life traditionally governed by non-market norms. As… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms,… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force,… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
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