Top 175 Norm Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Norm Quotes from famous people such as Eskinder Nega, Michael Eric Dyson, Renee Fleming, Lecrae, Norm Crosby, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of att

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
Eskinder Nega
I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
Michael Eric Dyson
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
Renee Fleming
Being faith-driven, being a hip-hop artist, being artistic in an urban context – all of those things make you unique, and you put yourself on the outside of what’s considered the norm.
Lecrae
‘USA Today’ once did a big article called, ‘Who said it? Was it Norm or George Bush?’ They had quotes of mine and quotes of his, and they went to some congressmen and senators and said, ‘Who said it?’ It was hysterical.
Norm Crosby
The biggest thing I’ve learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.
Caroline Buchanan
In the current world, with work-from-home emerging as a new norm, there is a spurt in demand for security, deployable across multiple work environments.
Ashok Soota
Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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.
Mark Zuckerberg
If you’re differently-abled, if you’re a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that’s different from the norm, for whatever reason, there’s an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.
Richard N. Haass
With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel for shorter distances the norm for the majority.
Caroline Lucas
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn’t know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
Jim Webb
To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
J. B. Pritzker
I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a ‘stick and stay’ mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn’t fit them or if it doesn’t fit in their schedule, they’ll move on to something else. That’s a norm in today’s time.
Marvin Sapp
The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn’t feel guilty about it at this point; it’s kind of the norm. Sometimes I’ll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I’ll catch up on the news, usually on ‘Huffington Post’ or ‘Salon.’
Randall Park
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines – these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry Miller
I have been very selective in the South because I was always offered the biggest films. In Bollywood, things are different because multi-starrers are a norm. All big heroines are happy to be part of a big movie.
Asin
For me, be it ‘Arth’ or ‘Libaas’ or ‘Masoom,’ there has always been space to break stereotypes or social constructs and perform beyond the norm. It happened all through my career and I am happy it did.
Shabana Azmi
My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.
Kevin Hart
Making something the norm is the only way of not making it a talking point.
Henry Golding
For us in Asia, fermented, bubbly, creamy things are just the norm.
Roy Choi
There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn’t fit with what’s the norm or what’s acceptable. There’s something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
Kara Walker
I think cyberbullying someone who states their opinion, especially a woman, is sadly a norm these days, and it happens daily to not just stars/actors. We have to consistently condemn and shun it so that it never gets the power it doesn’t deserve to have over the society.
Parvathy
Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
Bill Hayden
To take women’s equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.
Cathy Engelbert
When folks say ‘identity politics’ don’t matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don’t share that identity.
Patrisse Cullors
Topics that are hard to talk about can be difficult for a lot of people, but it’s important that we make sure we’re addressing difficult topics/issues so it doesn’t become the norm.
Eva Gutowski
I’ve always in some way tried to rebel against the norm, but there’s always been a voice deep inside that pressures me to look my best, not leave the house without makeup, etc.
Kaitlyn Bristowe
Happy is the small business that can hire additional employees besides the proprietor; rare is the indie-film enterprise that can be happy in this way. The norm is an unpaid principal with no employees between productions.
Whit Stillman
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.
Al Gore
People don't believe or understand that a community can

People don’t believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don’t have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don’t get better.
Geoffrey Canada
My work today is perceived as being classic, but when I first started out, it was a break from the norm. Since then, I have continued to reinvent myself. I don’t change my style, but I allow it to evolve.
Giorgio Armani
When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don’t have the luxury to dream.
Lori Lightfoot
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
Ashwin Sanghi
The heartaches of Obamacare don’t have to be the norm.
Thom Tillis
Whether it is crimes against women, whether it’s discrimination against women, whether it’s just social bias against women – these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.
Farhan Akhtar
How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.
Che Guevara
To avoid long-term deleterious effects, game developers must commit to stop facilitating a culture in which crunch is the norm. The occasional long night or weekend at the office can be useful and even exhilarating, but as a constant, it is damaging.
Jason Schreier
Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception – not the norm.
Miroslav Lajcak
It’s so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What’s harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.
Vincent Rodriguez III
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Roger Mudd
There is clearly risk associated with empowering your team to make more and faster decisions at a lowerlevel than was previously the norm. As you take your hands off the wheel, you need to be more vigilant and aware than ever about the decisions your team is making.
Chris Fussell
While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.
Janet Fitch
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.
Guy Picciotto
In order to spur progress, we all need to be people who point out and shine a spotlight on racism wherever we see it. It doesn’t always have to be confrontational, but it does need to become the societal norm that racism is identified and not tolerated in any form or fashion.
Joe Thomas
I’m used to being told by society that I must regulate my body to fit the norm. I’m used to the fact that images of unaltered women are seen as unacceptable.
Petra Collins
It’s as if a psychological norm is being established whereby comments left online are part of a video game and not real life. It’s as if we’ve all forgotten that there’s a real person on the other end, reading and being hurt by our vitriol.
Milo Yiannopoulos
When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.
Carol Burnett