Norm Quotes · Page 5

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

— Werner Herzog

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

— Stanley Crouch

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

— Alice Cooper

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

— Anonymous

[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

— Donald Trump

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

— Max Cannon

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

— Paul Ricoeur

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

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a…

— Tom Peters

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent…

— Sam Kinison

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity…

— Mark Roberts

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing…

— Thomas Sowell

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm…

— Mia Wasikowska

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has…

— Henry Cloud

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a…

— China Mieville

Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through…

— Richard Sennett

For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just…

— Laird Hamilton

I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that…

— Frans de Waal

David Lynch was actually the one who first inspired me to become a filmmaker when I was in high school. His films…

— Paul Dalio

Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable…

— Dallin H. Oaks

At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force…

— Jennifer Siebel Newsom

I see a generation comprised of all ages, inclusive of men and women, awakening to the extraordinary qualities hidden within. The power…

— John Bevere

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

We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it…

— Ice Cube

“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately…

— James Hollis

If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and…

— Dale Jamieson

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a…

— Henri Langlois

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely…

— Anonymous

And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying…

— David Foster Wallace

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

— Christina Aguilera

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

— Tony Judt

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

— Vladimir Putin

There is no norm that a woman must write a certain kind of script.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

— Anthony Storr

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms,

— Amber Valletta

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