New Norm Quotes

#1. Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

Rush Limbaugh

#2. I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

James McAvoy

#3. In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.

Nicholas Kristof

#4. Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.

Anonymous

#5. Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman

#6. I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.

Dan Groat

#7. It's not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society ("collectivity") to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.

Gary Valentine Lachman

#8. I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Andy Warhol

#9. Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Alice Dreger

#10. Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

Tanith Lee

#12. During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

Norm Dicks

#13. I just got back from New York. You ever been there? There was a big gay parade going on there when I was there, and I never been to one of them, and I like a parade. I always like a parade. So, I go there, and it turns out, it's just a bunch of gay guys.

Norm MacDonald

#14. The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Paul Ricoeur

#16. Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

#17. Maybe when you're alone or no one's looking, you dare to think, "Maybe someday I could get to work with somebody like Quentin Tarantino." For me, it happened. And it didn't just happen once, it's happened twice.

Walton Goggins

#18. I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'

Maya Tiwari

#19. Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

Dan Ariely

#20. But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

Hunter S. Thompson

#21. Apple is not sold with advertising despite the long series of clever advertisements produced for the company over the years. It is sold with evangelism, one person talking to another. The advertising reinforces the evangelist message.

Steve Hayden

#22. Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

Jim Hunt

#23. If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

Jerry Weintraub

#24. If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

Pope John Paul II

#25. There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

Robert Kazinsky

#26. I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese.

Ice Cube

#27. We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.

Norm Dicks

#28. In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

Justin Sane

#29. No. Skeve is not any kind of terrorist. He's an idiot." "The overlapping Venn-diagram section of those two categories, you will find, can be quite large.

Ben H. Winters

#30. Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Ingrid Newkirk

#31. Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Norm Dicks

#32. As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

Evan Osnos

#33. I wasn't living on the edge, I had gone over it. Insanity was now the norm and I had to keep feeding it in order to maintain the new domain I had created for myself. I had one eye on the road and one on the rear view mirror when I wasn't pre-occupied with my beer, cigarettes or car stereo.

Steven C. Smith

#34. Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

Ted Danson