"Our desire to conform is greater than our……" — Margaret Drabble
"Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts."
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Margaret Drabble
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25 Quotes by Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble has 25 quotes on this site.
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I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition…
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Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who…
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
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Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely…
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There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote…
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My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like…
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And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying…
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Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
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A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a…
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Nothing fails like failure
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Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
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Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother,…
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More Conform Quotes
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I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't…
— Erykah Badu
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything…
— J. G. Ballard
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I don't care much about conforming.
— Mayim Bialik
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that…
— Harry Browne
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
— Steven Brust
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
— Sandra Bullock
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the…
— Ronald Reagan
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something…
— Sun Tzu
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I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end…
— Bill Maher
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