Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge…

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

— Pope Francis

Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force…

— Anonymous

The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest…

— Valerie Solanas

Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our…

— Steve Perry

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

— Rumi

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with…

— Dave Smalley

Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research…

— Benedict Fitzgerald

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes…

— Carl Mitcham

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I…

— Rufus Wainwright

More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms…

— Antonin Scalia

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never…

— Edith Wharton

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

— Susan Cain

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner…

— Howard G. Hendricks