Conform Quotes
336 quotes by 287 authors
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Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.
— Micah Stampley
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Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what…
— Eva Cox
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For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign…
— Jonathan Turley
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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe…
— Gautama Buddha
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The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the…
— Dave Smalley
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The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
— Gautama Buddha
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When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
— Dale Archer
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All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
— Hyman Rickover
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The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.
— Mike Lofgren
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It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private…
— Frederick Scott Oliver
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Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,…
— Grant Morrison
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
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Through developing trusting and respectful relationships with the boys in our lives, we can help boys to value and acknowledge their relational capabilities, which they…
— Judy Chu
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Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and…
— Judy Chu
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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 only have talent…
— Flannery O'Connor
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general…
— Cesare Beccaria
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It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who Wrote These Conform Quotes
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