Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number… — Carl I. Hagen Copy Share Image
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them.… — Imogen Edwards-Jones Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect.… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
I was radicalised by being a minister. That's when I saw how the system really worked. And that is not a very… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where conservatism is on the rise - from America to Europe and in Singapore, too. People are… — Ivan Heng Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
For years, more women were steered toward the studio or toward being a reporter. If that's what you want to do and… — Beth Mowins Copy Share Image
I call it the 'doll house,' ... It's absolutely gorgeous, especially at this time of year. It's a crisp sky and, you… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as… — Elizabeth Streb Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
![“It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fde/johannes-kepler-4278_cautious_it-is-a-right-yes-a-duty-to-search-in-ca_1590640.jpg)
![“[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f6/dorothy-l-sayers-738_body_w-hen-i-see-men-callously-and-cheerfully_1493906.jpg)
![“The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/955/barack-obama-17_advise_the-one-thing-i-ve-said-to-donald-trump_135973.jpg)
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