We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or… — Maya Realm Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never… — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint,… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“Those who demand that you conform the most to how they live are the ones who are the most scared and intimidated… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations. — Hutch Parker Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life,… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
