Top 510 Norm Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.
Statements in support of radical terror organizations have become the norm for certain left wing members of Congress.
To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.
When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
It's become the norm that a player who has another year on his contract period has a decision between separation or extension.
Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what others are doing around you, it doesn't matter. Reach for it. Go for it - because I'm a shining example of that.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
We are moving closer to a future where quantified lives will become the norm.
I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority.
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
My biggest concern for the country is that many kids are now just looking at their parents who've lived on benefit and think that's the norm. It's so sad.
...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.
To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.
Van Basten went directly to the national team without coaching any other clubs. It's not the norm in Italy.
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.
When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.
I have always been interested in people who live outside of the fabric of the norm.
We have seen a shift in the focus of education before entering the workplace, with earning and learning the new norm.
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.
Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
It was something I was dreaming about, to be in WCW or WWE. At that time, it was an escape for me, out of the norm from being a neighborhood kid.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.
Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.
For someone to stand up against the norm makes them very intriguing to me.
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.
I grew up with the norm being three meals a day. You wouldn't dream of skipping a meal.
In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.
