Normal Quotes - Page 28

• But what I want most of all is a normal life.

  Mary Bell

  Want, Normal Life

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• Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.

  Craig Kilborn

  Directors, United States, News

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• The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

  John Hersey

  White, Body, Levels

  John Hersey (2015). “Hiroshima [Illustrated Edition]”, p.17, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• [Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

  NoViolet Bulawayo

  Jesus, Eye, Blue

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• You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adversity, Long, Laughing

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• The normal economic system works itself.

  James Salter

  Economic, Economic Systems

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• Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

  Adam Levine

  People, Statistics, Used

  "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex". Book by Judith Levine, 2003.

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• The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Ignorance, Thinking, Average

  Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”

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• You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  People, Should, Mullahs

  "The Life and Times of the Shah". Book by Gholam Reza Afkhami, p. 591, 2009.

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• An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Hands, Worry

  Herbert Read (2015). “The Politics of the Unpolitical”, p.145, Routledge

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• Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.

  Rhonda Britten

  Caring, Thinking, Order

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• It’s fun to be in a place where ridiculous is normal.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Fun, Ridiculous

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• Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Looks, Exhausted

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• The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.

  Eugene Fama

  Would Be, Investing, Matter

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• ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Fiscal Policy, Investing

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• The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Effort, Trying

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

  Red Smith

  World, Patterns, Rooms

  Red Smith (1983). “The Red Smith reader”, Vintage

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• Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Oysters, Years, Eggs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Humanity, Speech, Mark

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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• Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Art, Evolution

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• I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Children, Mind, Bitter

  'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910

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• A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Education, School, Men

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• Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Confused, Voice, Mind

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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