Quotes about Abnormal

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower. Humiliation is a topsy-turvy egoist's emotion. (Anatoly Yurkin) Alienated thinking is the avatar syndrome. (Anatoly Yurkin) Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes. I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack. Peabody, you never cease to amaze me.' 'One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers.' 'Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime.' 'Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time.' Peabody glanced up, deadpan. 'She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her. 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. 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. No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk. I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down. The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. In love, happiness is an abnormal state. We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people think that the way Serena and I are with one another is weird. It's not. My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person. 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. 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. With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be. 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. Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyr I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude. 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. These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple geometric shapes-discs, ovals, spheres, cylinders-and surfaces that looked like metal. Such shapes are not only nonexistent among known aircraft, but contrary to all known theories of flight, in most cases offering control and performance disadvantages rather than advantages. It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.