Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Cirincione

It is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials to conform their threat assessments to pre-existing policies.

Ty Segall

There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

As long as you follow those guidelines, you shouldn't have a problem. We simply conform to the law exactly.

Ruth Glick

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.

Aimee Teegarden

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

Donald Tusk

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Henry David Thoreau

As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.

Erin O'Connor

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Rumi

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

Shane Koyczan

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Mason Cooley

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

John Clarke

If we see to it that wages conform to the final productivity of social labor, we should see to it that trusts do not lower that standard.

He's a great player. Any team would be happy to have him. I think he'd do well here. With this locker room, I think he would conform to our standards and fit in well here.

Rebel Wilson

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

Hattie Morahan

There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.

Adam Lambert

Conforming is not cool.

We wanted to make the application as flexible as possible so that it will conform to how customers work.

Jean Chatzky

If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.

Kofi Annan

If the U.S. and others were to go outside the council and take military action, it would not be in conformity with the charter.

I really expect it (turnout) to conform with recent history.

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.

You tell us where we go and we will conform to the requirements for that date.

James Richardson

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

Tony Lewis

The justification for this has not been provided ? it is fairly draconian. If someone sells a product that does not conform to the standard they could end up with a high fine or a year in jail. We have seen nothing in the way of guidelines as to how this would be administered.

Norman Mailer

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Mahatma Gandhi

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

The Italian Health Ministry intends to conform to the commitments taken by our government.

John Dryden

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Chip Conley

I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Gloria Steinem

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.