God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really… — George Li Copy Share Image
When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
I don't really care what I look like that much, and I think women out there should just be happy with the… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Personally, I hate waiking the red carpet. You are expected to conform to every single expectation. People will say, "Try as hard… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch… — Dick Costolo 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
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
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
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we… — Timothy Pickering Copy Share Image
Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom 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
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place… — William Ashworth Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Or one could say that society is to ridged for the softness of a beautiful soul. Faith has its place, and that… — Brandon Darlington Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
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