Top 1200 Perfectly Normal Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

Everybody could have their own body scanned and just order clothes that fit perfectly.

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.

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.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a spiritual person has to be divinely practical in his day-to-day activities. Spirituality does not negate the outer life. But we have to know that the outer life does not mean the animal life. The outer life should be the manifestation of the divine life within us.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

I could go back to teaching the yoga and not doing the TV for the rest of my life and be perfectly happy.

It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.

You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

If I didnt do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.