Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us.… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I had a lot of anger against the way things 'should be done' - conforming to social norms, ticking boxes to gain… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
“Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy. — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform Freely. — Doris Janzen Longacre Copy Share Image
