Quotes About Going Against The Norm

#1. It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#3. Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Erica Jong

#4. There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark

Herbert Lindenberger

#5. Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

China Mieville

#6. Your moral education's over." Jean stared up into the sky as the dockside receded and Bug took them out into the canal's heart. "Now you're going to learn a thing or two about war.

Scott Lynch

#7. A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Anton Chekhov

#8. Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

Gavin Newsom

#9. My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Tom Chapin

#10. 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

#11. Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

Tony Blair

#12. Our lives should have depth, which means pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and not taking the easy way out all the time.

Marie Tillman

#13. The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.

Norm Dicks

#14. I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way ...

Nicole Kidman

#15. So now, contended indifference before Middlesbrough against Slovan Bratislava coexisted with a craving for an art in which violent, overwhelming, hysterical and destructive emotion was the norm.

Julian Barnes

#16. Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea ... creativity and stupid are interchangeable ... because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.

Richie Norton

#17. But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

Ted Demme

#18. 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