Conform Quotes

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system.

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.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

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.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.'

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

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

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

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.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.