Normalcy Quotes

• Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Ideas, Design, Chaos

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• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  Warren G. Harding

  Healing, America, Presidential

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.

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• America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational Life, Healing, America

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• Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

  Charles Addams

  Spiders, Chaos, Illusion

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• No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Family, Lying, Agency

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• I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

  Dirk Benedict

  Long Ago, Medical Bills, Abnormal

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• I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

  Tina Fey

  Way, Feels

  "Tina Fey: Miss Tina Regrets". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. February 15, 2010.

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• If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

  Eric Bogosian

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

  Ann Northrop

  Justice, Diversity, Different

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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• He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Silence, Vision, Realizing

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1531, Simon and Schuster

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• Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Simple, Things In Life, Enjoy

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

  Amber Benson

  Night, World, Our Society

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• It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Trying, Add

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• Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Progress, Guarantees

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• I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Range, Democrat

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Goes On, Fragile

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• …Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mean, Usual, Odd

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• (...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

  Colleen Houck

  Life, Unique, People

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• Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

  Joel Salatin

  Government, Next Week, Knowing

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• You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

  Taylor Swift

  Ideas, Long, Able

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

  Katherine Dunn

  Unique, Glimpse, Horror

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage

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• As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

  Sonia Johnson

  Sad, Pilots, Normality

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• I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

  Kelley Armstrong

  Should Have, Two, Waiting

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