Best normal & circumstances Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.”

Humans Matter Able Human Beings Circumstances Blessing Normal Extremes Curse

Author:Kevin Powers

“Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.”

Particular Circumstances Normal Libertarian Arguing Obligation Consent

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.”

World Able Sin Seeing Worst Subjects Circumstances Offers Normal Standards Expectations Mercy Insight Accepted Boundaries Hardship Temporary Exceed Seeing The World Velocity Decorum Reprieve

Author:Steve Almond

“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.”

People Men Trying Heart Long War Voice Secret Novel Psychology Circumstances Normal Capable Long Time Brave Males Deeper Surface Every Man Exploration Stillness Aftermath Best Novel

Author:Andrew X. Pham

“Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.”

“The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.”

Humans May Justice Conditions Circumstances Normal Cooperation

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.”

Way Giving Writing Opportunity Novel Months Circumstances Normal Muscles Permission Novel Writing Nano

Author:Michelle J. Howard

“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”

People Ifs Different Whole Light Loses Wonder Circumstances Normal Doctors Perfectly Normal Different Meanings Approaching Death

Author:Joan Didion

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.”

“Just driving I just was in a car on flat ground and I couldn't make it go. Having ticked driving and taken three driving lessons, I just was unable to produce any motion whatsoever under perfectly normal circumstances. I think we've all been busted on driving, and riding.”

Thinking Three Taken Car Produce Circumstances Lessons Normal Driving Flats Riding Busted Perfectly Normal

Author:Colin Firth

“In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy.”

States Happens Would Be Certain Economy Theory Circumstances Normal Fundamentals Financial Arise Behave Efficient Sequence Disruptive Financial Markets Efficient Markets Disequilibrium

Author:George Soros

“I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.”

Knows World Way Country States Humanity Easy Born Views Moral Worry Know How Teacher Generations Circumstances Civilization Normal Standards Affair Jew Shed Frail Younger Generation Veneer

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.”

Shows Given Worry Like You Circumstances Normal Tragedy Intention Leaving Folks Israel Decent

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.”

People Trying Hard Circumstances Normal Ruins Good Work Dystopia Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.”

Humans Mean War Born Democracy Rights Danger Circumstances Normal Human Rights Terror Israel British Behave Britain Introducing Mandates

Author:Shimon Peres

“I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.”

People Ifs Thinking Moments Knowing Depends Circumstances Normal Various Combination Sparks Cosmic Private Life Deep Down Fuse Really Deep

Author:Laurie R. King

“Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails. "I had to say something," Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: "Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!" "I thought you said this thing was stable!" Jason shouted over the wind. "Under normal circumstances," Hedge agreed, "which these aren't.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.”

Men Made Ends Age Conditions Circumstances Normal Slave Bounds All Time Decent Coward Casual Owing Present Time Decent Man

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Would Be Circumstances Normal Bedroom Inviting Highlights Indigo Spell

Book:The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

“I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.”

Men Past Felt Ability Circumstances Normal Powerless My Past

Author:Megan Hart

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