Top 100 Norris Quotes
#1. I would not want to be a politician ... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?
Chuck Norris
#3. There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.
Michele Norris
#4. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.
Shana Norris
#5. The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.
Dean Norris
#6. You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
Dean Norris
#7. Bring It On, ..nobody in the world could handle me in a fight. Including Chuck Norris.
Bone Crusher
#8. Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
#9. It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Woody Norris
#10. Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.
Jane Austen
#11. First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
George William Norris
#12. Anyone can create a job for themselves. But not everyone can change the world
Dan Norris
#13. If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.
George William Norris
#15. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
Mary Norris
#16. For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
Dean Norris
#17. Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.
Frank Norris
#18. Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change
Gino Norris
#19. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
Gino Norris
#20. Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.
Mary Norris
#21. Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.
Chuck Norris
#22. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.
Kathleen Norris
#23. The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."
Mary Norris
#24. When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!
Vicki Norris
#25. If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.
Kathleen Norris
#27. It is only a true mystery that can never be solved.
Paul Norris
#28. When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
Kathleen Norris
#29. It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.
Brian R. Norris
#30. The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.
Ken Norris
#31. Solutions have a voice - the art is knowing how to listen
Gino Norris
#33. I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.
Frank Norris
#34. Don't be picky about whether each piece of content is generating leads. Just create as much value as you can for the most amount of people in your chosen community.
Dan Norris
#35. It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man's desire cools; with every surrender made the woman's adoration increases...
Frank Norris
#36. From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.
Kathleen Norris
#37. Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.
Kathleen Norris
#38. Stupid arguments and the desire to be right -- that's what drives people apart -- that or death.
Frances Norris
#39. From Return of Swamp Thing
It's the old impasse:
I don't know what to wait for.
Kathleen Norris
#40. I mean, contrary to popular belief, I'm actually not harboring a secret desire to grow up and become a bioterrorist.
Elizabeth Norris
#41. You see, the main problem with our overspending and breaking budgets isn't money. It's trying to fill a need inside ourselves with things instead of God's presence and love. I
Melissa K. Norris
#42. My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.
Chuck Norris
#43. Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?
Jack Norris
#44. The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
#45. Even though I wasn't there, you were always with me. Always.
Elizabeth Norris
#46. In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.
Kathleen Norris
#47. Lily asked Calvin to play dolls with her. He reluctantly joined her on the floor, but it soon became Chuck Norris meets Joy doll and she was going down repeatedly. Lily, scandalized, pouted, but began to retaliate. Oh no you don't, Chuck! I'm Piper, psycho Barbie!
Shelly Crane
#48. Might we consider boredom as not only necessary for our life but also as one of its greatest blessings? A gift, pure and simple, a precious chance to be alone with our thoughts and alone with God?
Kathleen Norris
#50. ...relentlessly pursue your best method of getting customers, and not the stuff you naturally gravitate to.
Dan Norris
#51. Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.
Kathleen Norris
#52. There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
Deborah L. Norris
#53. One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris
#54. Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations
Gino Norris
#55. Life is easier than you'd think;all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris
Susanne Matthews
#56. An old farmer once asked my husband and me how long we'd been in the country. "Five years," we answered. "Well, then," he said, "you've seen rain.
Kathleen Norris
#57. My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.
Kathleen Norris
#58. Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.
Frank Norris
#59. A writer friend who was born in England summed up her feelings for the semicolon in a remark worthy of Henry James: "There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semicolon." I guess the opposite of that is that there is no displeasure so obtuse as that of an ill-placed semicolon.
Mary Norris
#60. A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.
Edward Norris Kirk
#61. Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.
Mary Norris
#62. It's "I felt bad," not "I felt badly," because "to feel badly" would mean "to grope about ineptly." The verb "felt" - definitely a verb of the senses, though not on Gordon's list - fuses the "bad" to the subject, rather than simply using an adverb to modify itself.
Mary Norris
#63. When something scares you the most, that's when you know you should do it.
Shana Norris
#64. Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.
Norris B. Finlayson
#65. The only time we fail is when we stop trying.
Chuck Norris
#66. I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.
Lee Norris
#67. I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.
Lee Norris
#68. The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the
delusion that the daily is of little significance.
Kathleen Norris
#69. I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.
Kathleen Norris
#70. I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.
Chuck Norris
#71. For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature
Thaddeus Norris
#72. On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
Dorothy Parker
#73. To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
Kathleen Norris
#74. Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,
service is the secret.
Kathleen Norris
#75. And the way it felt?" I whisper, as if that might soften the blow of embarrassment I'm about to deal. "Is that how you were feeling - how you feel - about me?"
A breeze comes off the ocean, and my skin feels strangely empty and open as he gives an almost imperceptible nod.
Elizabeth Norris
#76. You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.
Shana Norris
#77. Shea is a beast, Lucas, you know that. He is the Chuck Norris of baby-making and life; you don't mess with Shea,
Toni Aleo
#78. (Taken from the Foreword of 'Do Hard Things') One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
Chuck Norris
#79. The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body ...
Chuck Norris
#80. And no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.
Jane Austen
#81. I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
Kathleen Norris
#82. If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.
Chuck Norris
#83. There is nothing more worthwhile than knowing that you know ...
Gino Norris
#85. Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he's never cried.
Ian Spector
#86. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path
Gino Norris
#87. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
#88. Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.
Norris Brock Johnson
#89. I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'
Woody Norris
#90. Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.
George William Norris
#91. [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
Frank Norris
#93. Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.
Kathleen Norris
#94. I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
Patricia Norris
#95. Did you just compare your sexual prowess to Chuck Norris's karate skills?" I asked. "Same thing." Gabe shrugged. Shaking
Rachel Van Dyken
#96. When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
Kathleen Norris
#98. If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.
J. Loren Norris
#99. Fiddlesticks" is Scarlett O'Hara's way of saying "Fuck this shit.
Mary Norris
#100. It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It's not for the faint of heart.
Kathleen Norris
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