“The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.” PeopleMenTryingHeartLongWarVoiceSecretNovelPsychologyCircumstancesNormalCapableLong TimeBraveMalesDeeperSurfaceEvery ManExplorationStillnessAftermathBest Novel Author:Andrew X. Pham
“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.” YearsKindChildrenProblemAgeSchoolFiveTenNormalCapableAll KindsVaryVariablesNonverbalSchool WorkNeurological Disorders Author:Temple Grandin
“One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!” PeopleWantTryingStillsSometimesShowsOne ThingNormalCapableExtremesImpulseAcknowledgeTendernessConstraintsFetish Author:Bruce LaBruce
“Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.” HumansStatesDreamSleepConsciousnessNormalCapableStates Of Consciousness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.” BodyPainOpportunityNaturalPowerfulBirthNormalCapableLosingLaborSightInherentStrength And Wisdom Author:Deepak Chopra
“Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansMeanStillsCertainOrderI BelieveHuman BeingsAcceptingEnemyNormalCapablePhilosophicalOutlookMean People Author:Elie Wiesel
“I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.” IfsFeelsWellsChildrenGrowsMembersNormalCapableMy Children Author:Natalie Maines
“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)” ThinkingMenShouldBelieveIdeasRememberI BelieveNormalCapableDoctorsUniversalFunctionAncientEvery ManTreasureFulfillmentOccasionalGlorifyBarbarismAmazementBorgesRespiration Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.” KnowsTwoImportantSeemsActionOpportunityLanguageEnjoyHealthyNormalCapableTasksCatTwo ThingsAccomplishedFoulKnittingKnittersFoul Language Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much