Conform Quotes · Page 20

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

— Richard Dawkins

“When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and…

— Mary E. DeMuth

The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we…

— Katie Melua

Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands…

— Elisabeth Marbury

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

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the…

— Moby

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

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in…

— Jillian Medoff

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of…

— Sean Parker

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in…

— Edmund Burke

“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance…

— Mark Zuckerberg

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

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of…

— Christina Hendricks

If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls…

— Catherine Ponder

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively…

— Kate Chopin

One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton…

— Tee Corinne

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things…

— Francois Fenelon

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social…

— John Bates Clark