“It is valuable to realize that just because we have had a thought does not mean that it is true, helpful, valid… — Jem Friar Copy Share Image
We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to… — Micah Stampley Copy Share Image
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to… — Margaret Mead 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
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
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
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
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
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they… — Hemingway Copy Share Image
It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know...… — Bijan Copy Share Image
When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness. — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I dont conform or follow any group or trend, I walk my own path regardless of how strange it look... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not… — Adele Copy Share Image
“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image