Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
So, I think there's a danger that good stuff can fall by the wayside if it doesn't conform to formula. But I… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham 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
God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by… — Anonymous 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
Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational… — Judy Chu Copy Share Image
When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess.… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget… — Arthur Twining Hadley Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to… — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying… — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
“We gladly conform to the people's needs in all things if it can be done in conformity with the word of God… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming… — Charles Stanley 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
Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image