Quotes about normalization

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“What do you want from me?” – Nick
“Normally, it’d be your life and your soul. Unfortunately, I can’t take either right now. Sucks to be me today.” – Death”

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”

“People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.”

“It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.”

“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”

“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

“Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.”

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”

“Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.”

“My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy? ]”

“You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.”

“Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.”

“I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.”

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”

“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”

“I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.”

“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

“I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.”

“Uncertainty is the normal state.”

“We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”

“She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?”

“I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.”

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility”

“Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed… normal.”

“There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.”

“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.”

“A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.”

“Normal is all relative.”

“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”

“And I remember "normal" might never be the same again.”

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”

“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”

“Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.”

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.”

“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.”

“Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.”

“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

“You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.”

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

“There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.”

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

“Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

“as a child
i suppose
i was not quite
normal.


my happiest times were
when
i was left alone in
the house on a
saturday.”

“… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.”

“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

“Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.”

“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”

“When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.”

“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”

“This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.”

“True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”

“You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.”

“Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.”

“Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.”

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

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“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.”

“We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.”

“Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.”

“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.”

“You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.”

“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

“Normal' is a dryer setting.”

“I don't see why its taking so long," Maryse was saying to Magnus "is that normal?"
"What's not normal is the discount I'm giving you."Magnus tapped the heel of his boot against the wall. "Normally I charge twice this much”

“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”

“When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.”

“Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.”

“Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.”

“Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.”

“I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.”

“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”

“love being such, or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is dark”

“Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked.
"In case one of them is stolen," Marked said, as it were entirely normal.”

“Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.”

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

“Part 3
BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)”

“Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.”

“It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.”

“Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.”

“Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek)
Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)”

“The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic…”

“There was a pause, static, a muttered "Give me that," by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding, "Did you just drunk dial my husband?"
"Yes, ma'am," Strider said, and the other two finally burst into laughter.”

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

“You know how everything seems so normal when you’re growing up,” she asked plaintively, “and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?”