Normal Abnormal Quotes

#1. My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.

Sandy Skoglund

#2. Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#3. I am very abnormal ... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Dirk Benedict

#4. I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Taylor Swift

#5. Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Neil Young

#6. Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos.

Lisa O'Donnell

#7. As a society, we have become so sick, weak, and broken, we accept the abnormal as normal.

Robb Wolf

#8. The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that man is normal now, but biblical Christianity says he is abnormal now.

Francis Schaeffer

#9. If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

Catherine Ponder

#10. You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#11. Everyone has problems. Everyone has a shitty life. But people who embrace that and do something with the misery are seen as the abnormal ones. And the people who apply normalcy like a camouflage suit are seen as the normal ones.

Andersen Prunty

#12. Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. It is because you were not allowed to be a normal city with normal people, so much so that you become an abnormal place with abnormal people- Arabs and Jews alike.

Suad Amiry

#14. It's not any easier. We can't choose who we fall in love with. Besides, there's nothing abnormal about two guys being together. Nature made you the way you are and me the way I am. We're already living normal lives.

Jay Bell

#15. Like hedonistic consumption, we are encouraged to believe that the excesses of the family are normal and that it is abnormal to believe that one can have a functional, loving family.

Bell Hooks

#16. I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Isabelle Huppert

#17. Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

Watchman Nee

#18. And so the abnormal is now normal in entertainment, because the normal is treated as subnormal in the world of the media. That, I can assure you, is consciously done.

Ravi Zacharias

#19. Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Camille Paglia

#20. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Viktor E. Frankl

#21. Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

#22. But, what if?
Hadn't we wondered as little girls if we were the only ones with the ability? Were we the only freaks? Were we the abnormal among the normal looking for the abnormal to become the normal?
I raced back to my room.

Michelle Flick

#23. Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

Jerry Hall

#24. A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

George Takei

#26. Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#27. The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Vance Havner

#28. Even the most normal person, if placed in a highly abnormal situation, can be mistakenly perceived as the source of abnormality of the person/circumstance aggregate

Rivka Galchen

#29. Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contrary, the abnormal is often better than the normal...

G.E. Moore

#30. Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

Chester Barnard

#31. Be abnormal; being normal is too predictable for your brand.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#32. Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as "normal" or "abnormal" contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on separate occasions.

Daniel Kahneman

#33. If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

#35. I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.

Lea Salonga

#36. Being gay is normal; what's abnormal is having to hide who you are for fear of society.

Ben Tolosa

#37. How do we define "normal?" Quite literally it comes from the Latin norma meaning "carpenter's square." Straight. And "abnormal?" That's from the Greek anomalos, and the Latin abnormis meaning "monstrosity.

Matt Fraction

#38. Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Anais Nin

#39. Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal; it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!

Israelmore Ayivor

#40. Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Will Cuppy

#41. One day I'm a normal person with a normal life," he said. "The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.

Tyler Hamilton

#42. I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

Jane Hersey

#43. A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a lomg, long time ago.

Tracey Emin

#44. The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

Wallace Stevens

#45. Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.

Ben Fountain

#46. I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

Temple Grandin

#47. Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal.

Jae Hee

#48. I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

Emma Watson

#49. We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Edward Abbey

#50. I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#51. The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.

G.K. Chesterton

#52. My abs are normal - McAmerican.

Brian Spellman

#53. There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.

Anne Enright

#54. If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

Robert De Castella

#55. Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Simone Elkeles

#56. If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.

Terry Pratchett

#57. Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

Leonard Ravenhill

#58. Celibacy is nothing if not abnormal. The human body and brain are not made for such programming. Whatever normal is, it does not include celibacy.

Darrel Ray

#59. 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

#60. I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Tim Burton

#61. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#62. We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

Frederick Lenz

#63. 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

#64. My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

Sophie Hannah

#65. There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

Marcel Proust

#66. At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

Henning Mankell

#67. Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

Victor J. Banis

#68. When the normal is forbidden, people fall into the abnormal.

Jean Sasson

#69. When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost

Kudakwashe Mazendame

#70. Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#71. I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.

Viktor E. Frankl

#72. One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.

Milton H. Erickson

#73. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

Walter Brueggemann

#74. Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill

L.P. Hartley

#75. There's no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can't - and shouldn't - force yourself to want something 'normal' and stop wanting what you truly want. It's a sure way to make your life miserable.

Alessandra Hazard

#76. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#77. Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Cory Doctorow

#78. She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

Gertrude Stein

#79. I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.

Walter Truett Anderson

#80. Why would I want to go and get all normal when being abnormal is so much more interesting?

Nicole Williams

#81. If you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

Michel Foucault

#82. To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you ... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

Nnedi Okorafor

#83. Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Joseph Sobran

#84. I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Gallagher

#85. In writing the first edition of Japan's International Relations we aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of Japan as a normal state, rather than as an aberrant or abnormal state.

Glenn D. Hook

#86. They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

Leonard Ravenhill

#87. What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

Oscar Wilde

#88. Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

George Takei