Quotation Explorer - 'Norm'

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. - Garrison Keillor
At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature. - James H. Billington
When we see something different, we judge them either bad or good. But when see something similar we take it as a norm. So does it justify that morality is the epitome good or bad, or vice versa. - SYL
Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood. - Debasish Mridha
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. - Lewis H. Lapham
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor’s blessings become a Nigerian norm? - Sunday Adelaja
What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset. - Rosa Luxemburg
Fetishizing is the norm for males, not for females. - Robert Stoller
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto. - Roger E. Olson
Nothing is beautiful except the abnormal; and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. - C. S. Lewis
Abnormal nonsense. Suggests a norm, which is a tag placed on those who don’t conform to an elite’s view of itself. - Anthony North
Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm. - Marty Rubin
Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise? - Debasish Mridha
...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm. - Heidi Reagan
Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform. - Constance Chuks Friday
Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God. - David G. Wells
The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm. - chimamamanda Ngozie Adichie
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