Top 250 Abnormal Quotes & Sayings

The world is a very abnormal place.

I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'

I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

I don't see midgets as abnormal people.

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Sex is normal and natural, and we've made it abnormal and unnatural.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense.

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.

The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology of the abnormal. We have all these syndromal boxes that we can put people in and so forth. The actual evidence on syndromes is not very good. There's no specific biological marker for any of the things that you see talked about in the media. Even things like schizophrenia - there's no specific and sensitive biological markers for these things. There may be some abnormal processes involved, but vastly more of human suffering comes from normal processes that run away from us.

Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

I guess the essence of my comedy is to get into a very abnormal situation but act like it's normal.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

Living is abnormal.

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal.

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.