Quotes About Conform

Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of Society, such that their very a- or immorality is what makes their art artistic rather than academic.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

In art, the world conforms to the creative idea; in science, the idea conforms to the world.

ongoing process, which is still happening today, of letting God's Word, empowered by God's Spirit, conform me to the image of Christ was God's calling to sanctification.

He pulled himself together to answer her question. "Life is awfully complicated now," he said, trying to express his thoughts; "you have got to conform to laws that your instinct tells you are false laws—it makes me angry sometimes.

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

We must live not as we like, but as we can.

Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform --that God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.

Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don't understand that the culture really isn't offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Successful law is simply the publication of the practice of the majority of units of a society, and by it the inevitable variable units are either driven to conform or are eliminated. We have had many examples of law trying to be the well-spring of action; our prohibition law showed how completely fallacious that theory is.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.

Roman rule possessed the following principles: -put no pressure on others to conform, -destroy no cultural traditions, -suppress no difference of language, -impose the way of peace, -build an institutional framework strong enough to be taken for granted as people go about their daily concerns, -enable representation of all people in government and allow their ambitions to be fulfilled.530

Getting those rights is essential. But, as Kenji Yoshino notes in his discussing of covering, winning rights is only one part of the battle. To keep them, we have to change the culture, and that means resisting the demand that we cover and conform.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.