Best normal & states Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.”

“You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.”

Feels Should Heart Sometimes States Suffering Natural Normal Rhythm Shock Internals Should I Pacing Sudden Death Defibrillators

Author:Victoria Gotti

“My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.”

States United Deals Numbers United States Special Havens Return Taxes Normal Computer Paid Tax Returns

Author:Bill Gates

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.”

“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.”

“A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.”

Persons Art States Belief Process Interest Natural Opinion Creation Pure Normal Happenings Art Is Direct Depth Artistic Works Of Art Projection Artistic Creation

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.”

Thinking Men Writing Persons Book States Lasts Forget Century Normal Creator Description

Author:Gao Xingjian

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Source: Image and Imagination

“All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.”

Way Humans States Past Nations Interest Human Beings History Danger Healthy Normal Glory Constitution Obsession Preoccupation Morbid Overshadowing

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.”

Men States Happiness Health Sorrow Disease Normal

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person in the world and if this man's life is in danger, the whole world is kind of in peril in a way, because the leader of the free world could fall into the hands of terrorists.”

Ifs Men World Way Kind Persons States Whole Hands Life Is Fall Stars President United Leader United States Danger Normal Terrorist Whole World Protected Peril Free World Super Star

Author:Roland Emmerich

“I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.”

World Mind States Together Used Joy Hours Love Is Silence Focus Teacher Pure Normal Instruction Guru Unfathomable Peace And Joy Embracing Love

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“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.”

States Stories Today United United States Directors Normal News Presses Threat Planning Als Vague Conferences Fbi Attorney Al Qaeda Normal Life Press Conferences Foreboding

Author:Craig Kilborn

“In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.”

Should States Sound Pay Accepting Normal Sacred Russia Absurd Officials Entity Bourgeois Homage Bribe Portraying

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.”

World Should War States Able Political United United States Economic Cold Return Normal Stability Cold War Assured

Author:George C. Marshall

“Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.”

Humans States Dream Sleep Consciousness Normal Capable States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.”

States Dream Sleep Morning Normal Streams Every Morning Our Dreams Repetitive

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.”

People Men Way Feels Believe States Character Wanted I Believe Space Streets Color Normal Draws Treated Harassment Hyper Street Harassment

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.”

People States Hands Government United United States Streets Wall Normal Criminals Manifestation Remarkable Gangsters

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“Our relationship with the United States is not reduced to questions of fighting terrorism and the Iraq war. German-American relations were so good for so many years because they extended deeply into the normal lives of people.”

People Years War States Fighting United United States Normal Relation Iraq Terrorism Our Relationship Iraq War Normal Life Fighting Terrorism

Author:Angela Merkel

“Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.”

“The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.”

Humans Persons States Government Individual Normal Ordinary Abuse Affair Tyranny Arbitrary Compulsion Coercion Ordinary Person

Author:Walter E. Williams

“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

“A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.”

Knows Want Has Beens War Ends States Facts Names Causes Normal Smart Ideals Affair Soldier Causes Of War

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.”

Ifs Trying States Facts Individual Powerful Democracy Needed Protect Normal Protection Fragile Elites Turkeys

Author:Elif Safak

“The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.”

Ifs Feels May States Natural Accepting Normal Trance

Author:Arjuna Ardagh

“I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.”

Years States Three College Normal University Sunday Apartment Buddy Campus Carolina North Carolina Thursday Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Scotty McCreery

“To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.”

Doe States Problem Government Names Crime Authority Normal Trade Track Corruption Damage Agreement Trade Agreements Syndicate

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.”

Years States Enough United United States Normal Percent Sitting Breaths Burning Flames Converting Kentucky Uranium Plutonium

Author:Bill Gates

“To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.”

Persons Important Self States Care Consciousness Involved Activity Normal Perception Enlightenment Yoga Good Things Dare Lifts Expansion Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Sharon Gannon

“It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective in mind or body or will can be useful labor feed, house, and clothe himself and his family. The "right to work" and the "right to a living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.”

Men Mind Persons States Body Care House Rights Economic Conditions Normal Labor Property Take Care Defective Living Wage

Author:Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

“I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.”

People Knows Looks States Given Bits Cities Normal Connected Administration Organisms Bureaucracy Parallels

Author:Dylan Moran

“When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking for a car or not. So Google promised that mental state, and then were able to prove that delivering the message at the exact right moment would make someone click on something. So they pioneered the idea that advertising could be profitable on the internet, that a specific, very micromental state could be targeted. And they established the primacy of the click, which has haunted us ever since.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Ideas States Moments Able Car Internet Prove Normal Messages Advertising Hey Google Profitable Clicks Delivering Right Moment Primacy

Author:Tim Wu

“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.”

People Ifs Years Two War States Whole Jobs Half Talking Cases Support Normal Army Institutions Reactions Two Years Syria Sects Disintegration

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“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

“One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and then push it to an even further absurdity. It's only in this light that we can see the reflection of the disturbing state of our present-day affairs.”

Feels Writing States Light Fiction Situation Normal Approach Reflection Affair Absurd Absurdity Disturbing Present Day Speculative Fiction

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“Parents are already telling their kids about falling in love online - there's nothing "frightening" or "dystopian" about this. So, the critique doesn't work, because we already consider our dystopic state of affairs normal.”

States Kids Fall Parent Normal Falling In Love Affair Online Frightening Dystopian Critique

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.”

Knows States Facts Culture Evil President United United States College Members Normal Clinton Absolutely Nothing Fraternity President Clinton

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the right to vote in 48 states, and while we accept that as normal in the United States, in other western democracies people in prison do have the right to vote.”

People Men States Black United Accepting Millions United States Democracy Normal Highest Vote Prison Western Rate Conviction Dues Denied Right To Vote Felony

Author:Michelle Alexander

“There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with Europe tagging along, moved to punish the Palestinian people, and punish them harshly, because they voted the wrong way in a free election. That's accepted here in the West as perfectly normal. That illustrates the deep hatred and contempt for democracy among western elites, so deep-seated they can't even perceive it when it's in front of their eyes. You punish people severely if they vote the wrong way in a free election.”

“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.”

People Feels States Moments Consciousness Behavior Normal Aspect Okay Addiction Toxic Altered Obsessive Normal Life States Of Consciousness Brief Moments Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Moby

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

Love Should Persons States Shows Feelings Love Is Normal Self Improvement Being In Love I Love Him

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?”

Mind States Normal Sideways Bleach Ichigo

Author:Tite Kubo

“Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.”

States Enough Lasts Common Havens Degrees Normal Independent University Common Sense Frontiers Schooled Public Education University Degrees Sheltered Lives

Author:Sarah Palin

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.”

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

People Thinking States Used Grows Normal Slave Tolerance Oppression

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Not strike lambs”

States Known Normal Strikes Lambs

Book:Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Comfort Edition

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