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  • Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. -- William James
  • Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. -- Henry Adams
  • Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
  • Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. -- Johnny Depp
  • Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. -- George Takei
  • Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. -- William Osler
  • You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. -- Tim Burton
  • Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. -- Temple Grandin
  • Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. -- Cory Doctorow
  • An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. -- Viktor E. Frankl
  • Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes. -- Rich Lowry
  • It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal. -- Gilberto Hernandez
  • An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. -- Louise Brown
  • Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. -- Tom G. Palmer
  • It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal. -- Sue Johanson
  • Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Anais Nin
  • I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior. -- Jerry Falwell
  • Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. -- Ugo Betti
  • I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal -- Isabelle Huppert
  • Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any sudden moves around than any other city in the world. -- David Letterman
  • 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
  • Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. -- Tom G. Palmer
  • Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all? -- Carrie Fisher
  • In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. -- Camille Paglia
  • The world is a very abnormal place. -- Salman Rushdie
  • I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
  • I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult. -- Emma Watson
  • All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. -- Ugo Betti
  • That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. -- Elie Wiesel
  • I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers. -- Giorgio de Chirico
  • Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well. -- Bethany Hamilton
  • There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives. -- Anne Enright
  • Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously. -- Olga Kurylenko
  • When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that. -- Carlos Ghosn
  • I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. -- Taylor Swift
  • The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. -- Annie Besant
  • If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it. -- Clyde Edgerton
  • Well Mike, I'm abnormal. -- Frank Zappa
  • In love, happiness is an abnormal state. -- Marcel Proust
  • You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
  • Everyone is flawed and some degree of abnormal. -- Ken Poirot
  • I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal. -- Emily J. Proctor
  • I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology. -- Andrew Sarris
  • Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. -- Camille Paglia
  • There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. -- Marcel Proust
  • Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. -- Asger Jorn
  • I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down. -- Joanna Newsom
  • Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal. -- Marcel Proust
  • Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal. -- Simone Elkeles
  • Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience. -- Watchman Nee
  • Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". -- Hans Asperger
  • Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes. -- Daniel D. Palmer
  • Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition. -- Chester Barnard
  • Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way. -- Paul Fussell
  • Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal. -- Si Robertson
  • Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. -- C. S. Lewis
  • May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. -- Mary MacLane
  • Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack. -- John Eliot
  • We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal. -- Edward Abbey
  • Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits. -- Robert Haugen
  • Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal. -- Will Cuppy
  • The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us. -- Kobo Abe
  • Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal. -- Jerry Hall
  • Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. -- Neil Young
  • The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. -- Wallace Stevens
  • I had an aunt named 'abnormal Shauna' once. But she passed away in an unfortunate cliff-top interpretative dance and fireworks accident." -- Joshua Donellan
  • No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk. -- Alan Greenspan
  • I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations. -- Jane Hersey
  • In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement. -- Ben Goldacre
  • Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition. -- Frank Zappa
  • She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. -- Gertrude Stein
  • We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. -- Eve Ensler
  • I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. -- Anais Nin
  • I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' -- Brian Eno
  • The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions. -- Clarence Darrow
  • The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. -- Vance Havner
  • My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. -- John Waters
  • A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in. -- Yukio Mishima
  • It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am. -- Arthur Ashe
  • What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. -- Oscar Wilde
  • If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal. -- Robert de Castella
  • The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal. -- Raph Koster
  • Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal. -- John Shelby Spong
  • Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly. -- Joseph Sobran
  • I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way. -- Bear McCreary
  • Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth. -- Richard Gerber
  • On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody. -- Robert M. Hutchins
  • Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures. -- Maren Jensen
  • None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world. -- Sufyan al-Thawri
  • It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction. -- Robert O. Becker
  • It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal. -- Wallace D. Wattles
  • I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. -- Isabelle Huppert
  • There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children. -- Cecilia Malmstrom
  • The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen. -- Assata Shakur
  • Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom. -- Paul Brunton
  • While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming. -- Andrew Weil
  • I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy. -- Dirk Benedict
  • I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation. -- Temple Grandin
  • They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. -- Janet Frame
  • Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man. -- Henry George
  • Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. -- George Packer
  • Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries. -- Morton Feldman
  • Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
  • We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that man is normal now, but biblical Christianity says he is abnormal now. -- Francis Schaeffer
  • I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour". -- Viktor E. Frankl
  • These are friendships that these girls are making that will be a lifetime and they're doing things that are so abnormal and to such a high level, that there's a bond that's like no other. -- Kim Zmeskal
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