Norm Quotes · Page 4

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

— Virginia Woolf

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

— John Steinbeck

“Wenn die Gewalt zur Norm wird, passen sich die Menschen an die Norm an.”

— Blake Crouch

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

— Robert Greene

If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis.

— Vladimir Putin

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

— Judith Butler

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

— Susan Fiske

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our…

— Billy Joel

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and…

— David Brooks

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the…

— Robert Winston

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery…

— Robert D. Arnott

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions -…

— Judith Butler

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside…

— Anonymous

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging…

— Billy Gibbons

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

The time has come for a new immigration commission to develop a new set of reforms to our legal immigration system in…

— Donald Trump

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of…

— Jacque Fresco

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of…

— Joan Jett

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,…

— Christopher Hitchens

If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to…

— Tobi Vail

My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with…

— Barack Obama

The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of…

— African Spir

Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights…

— Richard A. Falk

If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's…

— Caitlin Moran

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play'…

— Jimmy Doolittle

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for…

— Paul Feyerabend

There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently…

— Howard Gardner

Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational…

— Judy Chu

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

— Bill Johnson

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.

— Tom Brady

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

— Jim Gilmore

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

— Mary Schmich

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

— Barack Obama

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

— David Bezmozgis

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

— Guy Picciotto