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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.