Conform Quotes

336 quotes by 278 authors

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, â€” What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity,… — Guillaume Apollinaire
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so â€” I don't know â€” not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just… — J D Salinger
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. — Henry David Thoreau
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform… — Thomas Pynchon
Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. — Nancy Springer
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
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't… — David Levithan
Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform. — Kate DiCamillo
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. — Robert Musil
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely… — Jon Katz
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place… — Bell Hooks
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by… — James E. Faust

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