We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way... — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception. — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm. — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior.… — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the… — James Levine Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over… — Mark Roberts Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The key is to be true to your community's norms and values. You can't just force yourself on people and try to… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
All the girls in the industry are really all about making different the norm. Everyone really wants that to stop being a… — Chantelle Brown-Young Copy Share Image
“We schamen ons natuurlijk niet om wat we doen, maar om de mogelijkheid dat dat wat we doen niet hoort. En terwijl… — Coen Simon Copy Share Image
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn't been… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not physically necessary. There is already a way by which the male system relieves excessive spermatic fluid quite regularly through… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me. — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image