Top 100 Norm Quotes
#1. As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Robyn Hitchcock
#2. Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.
Norm Phelps
#3. I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.
Norm MacDonald
#4. You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Norm Coleman
#5. I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.
Norm MacDonald
#6. A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.
Norm MacDonald
#7. I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
Norm MacDonald
#8. It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.' (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.
"I don't think she's tied up in knots anymore, Gladie," Norm observed.
"She is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie," Gladys remarked.
Kristen Ashley
#10. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
Norm MacDonald
#11. Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
Norm MacDonald
#12. When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
Dale Archer
#13. If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
Norm MacDonald
#14. There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.
Marcel Proust
#15. War has been the norm and peace the exception
Susan Sontag
#16. There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
Norm MacDonald
#17. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.
Norm MacDonald
#18. Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
Norm MacDonald
#19. Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
Norm Dicks
#20. Everyone had heard what happened and they were all so pleased, so very pleased. Which seems a little odd, but in Cainsville "a little odd" was the norm.
Kelley Armstrong
#21. I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.
Norm Crosby
#22. 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
#23. A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.
Norm MacDonald
#24. The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.
Steven Pinker
#25. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm
Munia Khan
#26. Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
Norm MacDonald
#27. The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
Norm Dicks
#28. Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange ... CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.
Shelley K. Wall
#29. When you want to do something that isn't the 'norm' you will be made to feel like you have a problem and if you hear it often enough then you start to believe it too.
Radhika Vaz
#30. In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald
#31. Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
Norm Coleman
#32. Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.
Anonymous
#33. 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
#34. Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy.
J. Budziszewski
#35. The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
Norm MacDonald
#36. I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.
Norm MacDonald
#37. Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
Norm MacDonald
#38. Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
Norm MacDonald
#39. This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Norm Dicks
#40. If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.
Philippa Perry
#41. We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.
Norm Stewart
#42. I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
Norm MacDonald
#43. 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
#44. You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
Norm MacDonald
#46. Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?
Sunday Adelaja
#47. We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
Peter Drucker
#48. I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
Norm MacDonald
#50. What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
Patti Stanger
#51. Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.
Julia Hill
#52. In our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#53. The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
Octavia E. Butler
#54. I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
Tyne Daly
#55. It's as if I've stepped through a time portal into a place where acceptance is the norm, so unreal.
Jenna Roads
#57. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss Jami
#58. Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.
Evan Thompson
#59. Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
Marlee Matlin
#60. Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?
Debasish Mridha
#61. 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 loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.
Brendan Gleeson
#62. Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
Morton Feldman
#63. An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.
John Battelle
#64. They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
Norm MacDonald
#65. Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
Peter Drucker
#66. The only way to survive in a community where movement was the norm and material accumulation impractical was to maintain a strong sense on tribal solidarity by evenly sharing all available resources.
Reza Aslan
#67. We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
Norm Dicks
#68. There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people.
Norm MacDonald
#69. The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
Sean Parker
#71. When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman
#72. Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage.
Norm MacDonald
#73. There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved
Pope Pius XII
#74. You're just the sperm donor, Norm," he says, heading for the door. "That's all you were ever good for. Fucking sperm.
Jonathan Tropper
#75. Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.
Virginia Postrel
#76. Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Betty Buckley
#77. I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald
#78. Our passions may be compared to certain slaves
the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
Norm MacDonald
#79. A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.
Norm Coleman
#80. Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
Bill Hayden
#81. 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
#82. Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
Norm Coleman
#83. If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you; not everyone is that lucky.
Donna Lynn Hope
#84. The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.
Norm MacDonald
#85. Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.
Marty Rubin
#86. What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
Billy Graham
#87. I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.
Mark Bradford
#88. There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
C.S. Lewis
#89. As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee
#90. In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.
Norm MacDonald
#91. Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.
Bill Johnson
#92. Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
Jonathan Kozol
#93. The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
Jessa Gamble
#94. With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
Norm MacDonald
#95. I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
Norm MacDonald
#96. I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.
Norm MacDonald
#97. Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?
Rush Limbaugh
#98. I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
Lynsey Addario
#99. The Cross is the mediation point between two universes. In a way, the cosmologists are right. Multiple dimensions and parallel universes are not only possible; they are the norm.
Gary Stearman
#100. It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.
Robert Winston
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