My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates.… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?'… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing. — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos. — Zoey Tur Copy Share Image
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs? — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business.… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I don't expect that the president-elect [Donald Trump] will follow exactly our blueprint or our approach, but my hope is that he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
![“I don't expect that the president-elect [Donald Trump] will follow exactly our blueprint or our approach, but my hope is that he does not simply take a real-politic approach and suggest that, you know, if we just cut some deals with Russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b48/barack-obama-17_approach_i-don-t-expect-that-the-president-elect_3212297.jpg)
