Conforming Quotes

58 Conforming quotes by 54 unique authors

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. — Betty Friedan
New ideas are not born in a conforming environment. — Roger von Oech
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a… — Laozi
People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older… — Olivia Wilde
When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like… — Gus Van Sant
When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people. — Sean Durkin
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who… — William A. Dembski
The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to… — Carl Rogers
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel… — Tullian Tchividjian
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
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life… — Marvin J. Ashton
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — Marcel Duchamp
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules. — Mark Haddon
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the… — William Law
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. — Dan Savage
Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the… — Charles Stanley
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — 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
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.
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
Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own… — Richelle Mead
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the… — Nancy Pearcey
One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. — Gloria Steinem

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