Normalcy Quotes

Normalcy Quote of the day

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

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.

I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

No one was normal, not really.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.

As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.

Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.

Insanity is nothing more than ordinary.

Says you and your family. Sooner or later you’re gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn’t mean it is. Not at all.

The world might be going up in flames, but we have to carry on as normal

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy

I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.

Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness.

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!