Best normal & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Zayn Malik

“People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.”

People Ifs Feels Persons Made Kids Felt Saws Normal My Favorite Come Up Conventions Geek Favorites Things Outcast Goth

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.”

Ifs Feels May Made Country Facts Political Difficult Struggle Gone Huge Normal Dictatorship Greece Barbarism Political Life Upheaval Polarization

Author:George Papandreou

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Humanity Conditions Figures Normal Species Definitions Income Excellent Muscles Looking Good Single Person Human Species Disposable Adverts

Author:Francis Spufford

“In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.”

Ifs World Needs Persons Whole Home Certain Pay Cities Millions New York Right Now Normal Dollars Average Los Angeles More Money Million Dollars Iowa Starters

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.”

Ifs Normal Exotic

Author:David Spade

“If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?”

People Ifs Normal Relate Normal Life

Author:Scott Speedman

“It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?”

Ifs Way Universe Normal Meaningful Meaningless Meaninglessness

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?”

Ifs Stills Real Self Today Fiction Car Elements Normal Standards Hollywood Science Fiction Driving Real Life What If Defining 1960s Knights Riders Science Fiction Movie Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.”

Ifs Ideas War Hands Today Pain Violence Brother Normal Weapons Conscience Destruction Raises Fallen Justify Violence And War Pain Death

Book:Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

Source: Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith

“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”

People Ifs Seems Church Normal Testament New Testament Abnormal

Author:Vance Havner

“I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.”

Ifs Knows Stills Normal Glee New Normal

Author:NeNe Leakes

“The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.”

People Ifs Two Week Streets Normal Six Series Surprising Two Weeks

Author:Paul McGann

“If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.”

Ifs Life Is Guy Dark Roles Dangerous Normal Excitement Kicks Day To Day Bad Guys Dark Places Day Life Day To Day Life Enticing

Author:Tony Vincent

“My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.”

People Ifs Way Want Children I Can Helping Desire Motivation Can Do Normal Can Do Something

Author:Panayiotis Zavos

“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.”

Ifs Want Needs Normal Projects Intellectual Towns Architecture Making Money Architect Utopian Developers Sponsors

Author:Leon Krier

“If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.”

Ifs Trying Persons Kids Figures Normal

Author:Katherine Paterson

“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.”

Ifs Humans Looks Reality Eye Remember Human Beings Forget Half Happened Normal Bottom Imaginary Admirable Imaginary Life

Book:Polgara the Sorceress

Source: Polgara the Sorceress

“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”

Ifs Conditions Loneliness Normal

Author:Rachel Hartman

“Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.”

Ifs Knows Humans Important Action Situation Normal Important Things Interfere Antidote

Author:John Herschel

“I get bored really easily. I get bored with people really easily. I get bored with routine easily. I don’t like things that are average, or normal. I care if I have the best – in the world about that - just wanting that great light that everybody looks at and goes ‘Ahhh’. I feel like that’s what I’ve found in my partner.”

People Ifs World Feels Looks Light Care Found Normal Average Partners Bored Routine I Care

Author:Susan Downey

“If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.”

Ifs Want Country Normal Congress Treated Iran

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.”

Ifs Two Natural Accepting Gay Normal Folks Denied Love Each Other

Author:Kevin Rudd

“When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.”

Ifs Girl Reading Grows Fiction Growing Up Growing Normal Female Historical Males Everyday Historical Fiction Clara Betsy Ross

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.”

Ifs Kind Body Felt Normal Odd Emptiness Lacking Detachment Frail Clumsy Fragility Numbness Coordination

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Firsts Doe Character Courses Stuff Cutting Special Color Normal Scripts Suits Ties Hats Ingredients Assets Costumes Cement Blah Wearing A Suit

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”

“[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.”

Ifs Book Enough Use Together Causes Cutting Subjects Evolution Normal Pages Careful Damage Portions Thick Agnostic Sections Spine Corrections

Author:George R. R. Martin

“My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?”

“We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.”

“If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there is any skill involved, it will accelerate the process of concentrating all the stakes in a few hands. Something like this happens in the market. There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you'll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.”

“My mom and I are very honest with each other, almost to a fault. But that's just the way I am in life. If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.”

People Ifs Way Song Stuff Records Honest Stupid Mom Normal Faults My Mom Pops Pop Song

Author:Kesha

“I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Ideas Sometimes Hurt Havens Normal Tired Hurt Me Wrong Ideas

Author:Craig Nicholls

“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.”

People Ifs Writing Reason Facts Use Courses Blood Cry Normal Prison Ill Prisoner Autonomy Frustrating Ink Restriction Mentally Ill

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

People Ifs Should Running Past Belief Causes Steps Risk Trouble Changed Regret Normal Trade Historian Mistaken Vocation Conservatism

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.”

People Ifs Humans Happens Dies Process Views Depression Normal Etc Being Human Learning Experience

Author:Bob Geldof

“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.”

Ifs Want Different Differences Normal

Author:Evan Esar

“A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.”

Ifs Normal

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“If prosperity means God wants us to be blessed and healthy and have good relationships then yes, I'm a prosperity teacher. But if it's about money, no, I never preach about money. I probably stay away from it more than normal because televangelists get a bad name. People put me in that category because I do believe that God does want us to be happy, healthy, and whole.”

People Ifs Want Believe Mean Doe Whole Names Teacher Healthy Normal Blessed Prosperity Categories Want U Good Relationship Being Blessed

Author:Joel Osteen

“What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.”

Ifs Thinking Parent Healthy Normal So Sad Bad Parent

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.”

People Ifs Children Made Seems Mother Special Normal Made It Cheer Perfectly Normal

Author:Shirley Temple

“In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.”

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.”

Ifs Helping Feelings Dream Lost Process Difficult Risk Regret Normal Prison Mourning Temporary Lost Dreams Unrealized Dreams

Book:How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns

Source: How Did I Get Here?: Finding Your Way to Renewed Hope and Happiness When Life and Love Take Unexpected Turns

“If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.”

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.”

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?”

People Ifs Thinking Way Needs Doe Shows Actors Stars Five Four Cost Normal Eating Hundred Dollars Dinner Restaurants Expensive Fifty Hotel Relative Tickets Seventies Broadway Spectators

Author:Ferran Adria

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