Normal Reaction Quotes

#1. The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

Temple Grandin

#3. RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.

Michael Hyatt

#5. I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#6. I'm annoyed because he assumed I'd have dinner with him, then continued to assume I would even after I refused. It's a normal reaction.

Nora Roberts

#7. Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can.

Charlie Adam

#8. The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

John Hersey

#9. Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Erving Goffman

#10. It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

Osho

#11. I ejaculated about ten minutes ago and the stuff was black. So everything is not normal.
Silence greeted that happy little announcement. Man, if he had hauled off and sucker-punched V, he would have gotten less of a shocked-out reaction.

J.R. Ward

#12. The normal reaction to tasks that overwhelm us, either because we cannot see how we can ever finish them, or because the level of difficulty is way beyond us, is frustration. Frustration breeds procrastination and welcomes distractions.

Helmut Sachs

#13. I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

William Wycherley

#14. 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J.G. Ballard

#15. I thought it couldn't be just an ordinary, empty space. It must be different from a petty vacuum. I looked into it again, feeling mesmerized, as if catching a glimpse of another universe. For no particular reason I felt like disappearing through the dark hole into somewhere else.

Yumiko Kurahashi

#16. The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.

Tony Dovale

#17. There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#18. 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

#19. Pain is not an evolutionary error.

Mathis Wackernagel

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

Viktor E. Frankl

#21. The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.

Nina Simone

#22. I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Dave Franco

#23. I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

Jim Parsons

#24. This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

Maggie Nelson

#25. I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

Anushka Sharma