Conform Quotes

336 Conform quotes by 278 unique authors

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
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance,… — Eckhart Tolle
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who… — Eric Hoffer
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. — Kelley Armstrong
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. — Robert E. Lee
To conform is to lose your soul — Joshua Ferris
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness.… — William P. Young
Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be.… — Parker J. Palmer
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).… — Edith Wharton
The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is… — John Piper
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.… — Karen Armstrong
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first… — Richard Dawkins
People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the… — Jonathan Evison

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