Norm Quotes

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.