To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more… — Edouard Seguin Copy Share Image
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn't matter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of… — Lord Chesterfield 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
Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational… — Margaret Millar 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
We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which… — Mikhail Chigorin Copy Share Image
I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human… — Jenna Coleman Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
Legal reform organizations are usually trying to portray their constituents as "hard workers," as "not criminals," as citizens, as part of normative… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image