“I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Lauretta Bender / Quotes / 1954 Senate Subcommittee Hearings into Juvenile Delinquency, "Testimony of Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist, Belleveu hospital Newyork N.Y." http://www.thecomicbooks.com/bender.html <br class="br">From songs
“I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.”
Darren Shan book Cirque du Freak
Source: A Living Nightmare
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 1, The Second Crisis of Economic Theory, p. 3
Angus King (1944) United States Senator from Maine
Bowdoin Academic Spotlight interview (2011)
Context: You have to take advantage of the opportunities that life gives you, particularly the moments in time when you have time, when you're between jobs or you retire. Get out and go. I think most of us are way too intense. We need to take a deep breath and do things that maybe don't fit the normal picture of what we're supposed to do at that stage of life. In some ways, this book is one big argument for just plain loosening up.
“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer
The Coming Religion (1910).
“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)