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We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
— Michael Holbrook
With his addition of a birth and infancy account, Matthew makes his Gospel conform more closely to the format of ancient biography.
— Edward Adams
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.
— Sandra Bullock
It's so important to always be yourself. If you do that, you will be successful as you, instead of worrying about trying to conform.
— Leighton Meester
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
— Michel De Montaigne
Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you.
— Debasish Mridha
If edges of galaxies do not conform to physical laws we discard the laws not the edges.
— Arpine Konyalian Grenier
I'm a young woman who subverts the conventionally accepted gender paradigm because I refuse to conform.
— Sara Benincasa
Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.
— Nancy Springer
The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.
— Debasish Mridha
It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.
— Howard G. Hendricks
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
It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends. — Robert T. Kiyosaki
and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends. — Robert T. Kiyosaki
Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.
— Pope Francis
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
— Siobhan Fahey
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
— Robert E.Lee
He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.
— Ravindra Shukla
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed.
— Billy Graham
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
— Gustave Flaubert
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
— Stella Young
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
— Budd Schulberg
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.
— Lenny Kravitz
I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
— Marva Collins
Take my heart and mold it; take my mind, transform it; take my will, conform it - to Yours, to Yours, to Yours.
— Micah Stampley
When the child does not conform to this image, the parents often need help in adapting their behavior to the reality - they
— Andrew Solomon
Conform and be dull.
— J. Frank Dobie
How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.
— Francois Fenelon
I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.
— Billy Carter
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
— Kenneth Patchen
There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
— Max Eastman
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
— Theodor Schwenk
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
— James Reston
Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.
— Christoph Fischer
I'm assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.
— Dr. Seuss
To conform is to be average.
— Manoj Vaz
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
— William James
To conform is to lose your soul
— Joshua Ferris
Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.
— Alexandra Robbins
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
— Caitlyn Jenner
True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.
— Robert McAfee Brown
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
— Erykah Badu
To conform is to give in.
— Jean Paul Gaultier
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
— Harold Rosenberg
If you want to conform, then how can you change?
— Debasish Mridha
Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
— Thomas A Kempis
Often we read to conform but not to educate.
— Debasish Mridha
God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
— Mark Dever
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.
— Imagawa Sadayo
Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform.
— Angela Parkhurst
What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Years of people pushing and demanding that she conform left a scar on her soul that kept her own self from emerging
— Tina J. Richardson
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
— Immortal Technique
Great intimates conform to you ... not you to them
— Rhonda Shear
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
In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
— Thomas Merton
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
— William Hazlitt
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
— Cinda Williams Chima
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
— Wm. Paul Young
Society forces you to conform.
— Ken Wilber
If you conform, you can never reform.
— Debasish Mridha
If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
— Edwin Louis Cole
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
— Marcus Aurelius
Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable - we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job.
— Jeanette Winterson
I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
— John Dryden
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
— Margaret Drabble