Going Against Norm Quotes

#1. I made myself unhappy measuring my love against a given norm. The truth is, we make ourselves happy in among a wide variety of loves; all count.

Monique Roffey

#2. I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare ... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.

David Jolly

#3. One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Scott Reed

#4. You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions,nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.

Therese De Lisieux

#5. Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.

David G. Wells

#6. Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea ... creativity and stupid are interchangeable ... because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.

Richie Norton

#7. So now, contended indifference before Middlesbrough against Slovan Bratislava coexisted with a craving for an art in which violent, overwhelming, hysterical and destructive emotion was the norm.

Julian Barnes

#8. I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way ...

Nicole Kidman

#9. The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

Norm Dicks

#10. It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Inside my soul there echoed the cry of a hundred elephants dying.

Selina Siak Chin Yoke

#12. One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.

Joel Fuhrman

#13. Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

China Mieville

#14. There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark

Herbert Lindenberger