Conform Quotes

336 quotes by 278 authors

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensibl e and unattainable... Holy is the way God is. To be holy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those… — Gore Vidal
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while… — Elwyn Brooks White
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the… — Michel de Montaigne
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with… — Confucius
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime… — Giuseppe Mazzini
If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people… — Andy Rooney
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform… — Andre Gide
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. — Billy Carter
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of… — Mark Leyner
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and… — Unknown Author
The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef… — Jacques Pepin
When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads… — Frederick Lenz

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