Norm Quotes · Page 6

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Guy Picciotto

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

— David Bezmozgis

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on…

— Alice Dreger

“Because of the unlimited potential packed within each person, attaining greatness should have been the norm, not an oddity.”

— Assegid Habtewold

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget…

— John Steinbeck

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by…

— Baratunde Thurston

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly…

— Judy Chu

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step…

— Meghan Markle

Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are…

— Judith Butler

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass…

— Al Gore

If higher summer temperatures become the norm in the future, people will adjust. Perhaps they'll take naps more frequently in the afternoon…

— Hans von Storch

I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious…

— Brendan Gleeson

Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that…

— Virginia Postrel

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of…

— Pope John Paul II

Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead…

— Marty Neumeier

Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or…

— Peter Dickens

Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to…

— Bill Bonner

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to…

— Rick Steves

Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.…

— Stephanie Coontz

I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They…

— Liz W. Garcia

Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage…

— Arjun Makhijani

I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which…

— Tituss Burgess

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated…

— Anonymous

I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context…

— Khoi Vinh

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected…

— Dee Dee Myers

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step…

— Eugenio Barba

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good…

— Frank Zappa

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a…

— Travis Barker

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

— Jonathan Chait

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

— Dan Simmons

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the…

— Earle Brown

Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in…

— Greg Giraldo

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

— Henry Miller

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

— Ron Fournier