Conform Quotes - Page 6

• Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Advice, Would Be

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.172

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

  Mike Lofgren

  Evil, People, Peers

  Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.120, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Stars, Bigs, Pops

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Who You Are

  "Aimee Teegarden Dishes on Her Teen Years!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 5, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

  Carl Sagan

  Guarantees That, Risk, Elements

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

  "Khloé Kardashian's Best Makeup Advice". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. January 8, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows awayOf course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Blow, Two

  11 Copy quote

• Great intimates conform to you...not you to them

  Rhonda Shear

  4 Copy quote

• Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Kings, Gun

  136 Copy quote

• When properly applied, the kamae reflects the ninja's heart.
  This means that our physical nature conforms to our intentions,
  and there is no division between our interior and exterior
  aspects. This state of integrated mind and body action is
  totally natural, and can be observed readily in the movements
  of animals as they interact with their environment. Only human
  beings seem to develop the need to be trained in natural body
  motion.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Heart, Mean, Animal

  Masaaki Hatsumi (1981). “Ninjutsu, History and Tradition”, Action Pursuit Group

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.

  Jennifer Siebel Newsom

  Pain, Loneliness, Adversity

  10 Copy quote

• 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 expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

  Judy Chu

  Boys, Thinking, Self

  7 Copy quote

• 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 we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

  Eva Cox

  Women, Differences, Feminism

  9 Copy quote

• It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

  4 Copy quote

• Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Cat, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

  Ralph Lauren

  Believe, Fighting, Unique

  12 Copy quote

• 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 alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Blood, Perfect, Investing

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact opposite - it's very constricted, all having to conform to a form. My sense of fiction writing is not to think about rules but to be driven by the characters and their stories. I often ask myself what's at risk here, who needs what, and how are they going to get it. There has to be a reason for the reader to stop living their own life and start reading your book.

  A.M. Homes

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

  William O. Douglas

  Thinking, Views, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Football, Latin

  15 Copy quote

• Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.

  Paula White

  Character, Mean, Christ

  Source: culteducation.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Men, Land

  7 Copy quote

• From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Liberty, Arise

  4 Copy quote

• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

  Kim Wilkins

  Essence, Checklists, Indefinable

  4 Copy quote