For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me. — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
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 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
Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe? — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of… — African Spir 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
If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
