Norm Quotes

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm.

We have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.

There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

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.

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.

If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis.

What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform.

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

wherever there is true love, compromising will always be an unspoken norm.

Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor’s blessings become a Nigerian norm?