Quotes About Normalcy

We're not peculiar. Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

El placer anormal anula el gusto por el normal.

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go?

To every time, its own normality.

But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

The Baby-sitters Club was (almost) back to normal.

It's over. I can't believe it. Back to boring old life.

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet.

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behaviour. But that's not the same thing.

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

So all in their different fashions pursued their daily lives, thoughtfully or not; everything seemed to be following is usual course, as is the way in monstrously strange circumstances when everything is at stake: we go on with our lives as though nothing were the matter.

I wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Hell is the denial of the ordinary...

Paul opposed Rome with Christ against Caesar, not because that empire was particularly unjust or oppressive, but because he questioned the normalcy of civilization itself, since civilization has always been imperial, that is, unjust and oppressive.

I glimpse again that biblical rhythm of expansion-and-contraction, assertion-and-subversion. As that rhythm becomes ever clearer as the very heartbeat of the biblical tradition, we will see the basic solution for How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian. Read it all carefully and thoughtfully, recognize radicality's assertion, expect normalcy's subversion, and respect the honesty of a story that tells the truth.

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.