Quotes About Abnormal

He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn was too tense and highly charged for any common happening to survive.

Like hedonistic consumption, we are encouraged to believe that the excesses of the family are normal and that it is abnormal to believe that one can have a functional, loving family.

Laws and regulations should be designed to address normal situations, while providing special mechanisms for the creation of exceptions in abnormal situations.

It is because you were not allowed to be a normal city with normal people, so much so that you become an abnormal place with abnormal people- Arabs and Jews alike.

a weird movie.

Whilst we are less eager than our predecessors to dismiss all accounts of abnormal experience as the fruit of superstition or disease, no responsible student now identifies the mystic and the ecstatic; or looks upon visionary and other "extraordinary phenomena" as either guaranteeing or discrediting the witness of the mystical saints.

The greatest challenge is normalizing the abnormal and making the extraordinary ordinary.

When everything's twisted, what's normal ends up looking weird too.

I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

Take it easy, Norman. When the psychiatrist goes crazy, it's a bad sign.

Or maybe they're weird. Maybe dinosaurs are weird.

I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.

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We certainly are an odd bunch." "Yes. Seven people. Odd.

We cannot let them convince us this is normal!

At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

My life has been very much a roller coaster ride. Not just the boxing part, not just the acting part, just my childhood, what I was into at a young age and the things I was exposed to, it's just very abnormal.

The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.

Gating activity outside of the normal bell-shaped curve for the population of the United States is, generally, considered to be pathological. The more widely open gating channels are, the more likely someone is to be defined as clinically abnormal and to be labeled, one way or another, as having "stimulus filtering difficulties" or "gating deficits.