Quotes About Normalcy

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

If you spend too much time in L.A., you might start to lose a sense of what's normal.

Like every parent, my parents too took a lot of effort to give us the best, and to keep things as normal as possible.

I went to a high school, I took tests, I took finals, I went to football games - I did the whole thing. Because I really wanted to have that normalcy.

The main topic I'm always talking about is equality, and I get that it's politics, but it shouldn't be. It should be the most normal thing ever. There's bullying and discrimination about the colour of your skin, your religion. And it must end.

I was not tormented in any way; I was never even bullied. I had a nice teenage life.

The only way to rebel against my mother was to be totally normal.

Everyone gets scared from time to time. It's totally normal, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

En las calles tampoco se notaba nada. Business as usual. Pero en el aire flotaba aún la sensación del acercamiento estruendoso de lo desconocido...

Maybe being numb to the mediocrity of one's life is the price people pay for true happiness. Maybe bliss blinds a person to the fact that they could be something more than normal. Maybe if everyone grew up in happy houses with happy lives void of pain, we'd still be living in caves and beating animals to death with a club to eat.

It was a shame Christians had become so normal.

Our tools have "advanced," but we haven't advanced spiritually or morally. And so we, normal people, with the tools of destruction and wastefulness available daily for purchase, cannot handle the power.

but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

Vorrei essere come gli altri ragazzi". "Quindi vorresti essere meschina, falsa e ottusa?" [...] "No. Vorrei essere normale." "Essere normali è uno schifo!" è sbottata.

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

Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.

Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much normalcy can people forgo? For how long, and what does it do to them?

Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?' Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly. It's okay,' he said.

Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you, everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable—and unimportant?

It is amazing how everything can fall into a routine

I realized this was now part of my job: maintaining an outward sense of normalcy, upholding for everyone the fiction that we live in a safe and orderly world, even as I stared down the dark hole of chance and prepared as best I could for the possibility that at any given moment on any given day chaos might break through.

mundo del pensamiento positivo, los demás no están ahí para que los cuidemos, ni para darnos baños de realidad que no les hemos pedido. Solo tienen sentido si nos animan, nos aplauden y nos reafirman. Y aunque esto suena de lo más despiadado, hay mucha gente normal que adopta esta filosofía a modo de credo

One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal.