Abnormal Quotes - Page 2

• Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Anticipation, Problem, Harness

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Men, Average

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.3, 谷月社

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• Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

  Henry Adams

  Bullying, Energy, Facts

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.408, Booklassic

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• It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  School, Artist, Realised

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• Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Poison, Problem, Welfare

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

  John Waters

  Careers, Ideas, Interesting

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• I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Appetite, Wells, Normal

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• Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Disease, Causes, Chiropractic

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• In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

  Marcel Proust

  States

  "In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove". Book by Marcel Proust, 1919.

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• Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

  Paul Fussell

  Way, Feels, Senses

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• I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

  Joanna Newsom

  Thinking, People

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• Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

  John Eliot

  Careers, Achievement, Definitions

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• Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

  Will Cuppy

  People, May, Normal

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Witty, Powerful, Stupid

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• Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Twists, Taste

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• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  Carl Jung

  Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Matter, Conformity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.3, 谷月社

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Wedding

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

  Louise Brown

  Peculiar, Normal And Abnormal

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• It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

  Sue Johanson

  Guilty, Ashamed, Embarrassed

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• Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Children, Choices, Adults

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Identity, Normal And Abnormal

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.104, Vintage

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• I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

  Johnny Depp

  Roles, Problem, Beats

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• I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

  Andrew Sarris

  Psychology, Tragedy, Abnormal Psychology

  Andrew Sarris (1970). “Confessions of a cultist: on the cinema, 1955-1969”, Simon & Schuster

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• You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Return, Normal

  Jeffrey Pfeffer (1998). “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First”, p.9, Harvard Business Press

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