Conform Quotations

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

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

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.

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.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.

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.

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.

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

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual - that's close to unchangeable. And a transsexual - say a man who believes he's really a woman in a man's body - is completely unchangeable; you'd have to change the body to conform to the psyche.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

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.

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

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.

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

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

One of the reasons we have to plan way ahead of time is to conform to all of the state design approvals and mandates so we are eligible for reimbursement.

I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

No bowler is ever 'cleared' as they could simply revert to bad habits. All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials ... have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the laws of cricket.

No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

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.

God calls men to be imitators of His son, Jesus Christ, to conform themselves to Christ's image (1 Cor. 15:49). They are to work out the salvation that God gives them, and they are to do this with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12). This kind of steady improvement involves upward mobility: spiritual improvement, at the very least, but also economic and social mobility.

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.

He didn't have the ability to conform or modify his conduct.

He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split $1 million four ways between people who didn't conform to the normal. I did a couple of slow rolls with the X-1 (the plane in which he broke the sound barrier), and I guess he thought that qualified.

Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event like a traffic jam or a big rugby game there is a big spike in mobile phone calls in a concentrated area. Traditional network design can't cope with those changes in network usage very well.

Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

Man...must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being...And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

It had to be state of the art, but not cutting edge or bleeding edge. It had to be something that would carry us for 20 to 25 years. We wanted it to be adaptive, so we wouldn't have to rip it out when new technologies like IPv6 come down the pike. We wanted it to support agency standards and conform to our architecture. But the big thing was to remove IT boundaries within the different organizations within the FDA.

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

no one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ...

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!

The proposal has to conform itself with the new circumstances.

The proposal has to conform itself with the new circumstances. If the Russian proposal makes itself compatible with the new conditions, it can be negotiated.

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.

Conforming is not cool.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Constitutional law has developed since then. The American Bar Association has developed new model rules for advertising. The trend is to conform to the Constitution but protect the public. Also the commission feels the rules, as presently written, are very complex.

You can't conform in business, ... If you adhere to conventional wisdom, if you do everything everyone else does, you're going to lose, The only way to get ahead, to really get ahead. is to be different.

as they could simply revert to bad habits. All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials are of the view that they have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the Laws of Cricket when observed with the naked eye.

There is no reason for us to accept the suspension of our research activities nor to renounce our rights which conform with international rulings.

Some demands go beyond the framework of our economic opportunities and do not conform to our vision of WTO membership.

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

As of now we can salmon fish inside of three miles, but if the commission chooses to shut down state waters to conform with the federal government at its April 6-7 meeting, we could lose that, too.

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

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

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

If you're naturally a certain size, I think it suits you and you can see that. There's no point in trying to conform for the sake of it. People are meant to be different shapes, and their different shapes are so interesting and, ultimately, why people fall in love with them.

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

The new rules on eligibility conform to two guiding principles: that opening up the championship was based on ability and not on gender and that we kept the field as strong as possible. I would be absolutely delighted to see a woman qualify for the 2006 Open.

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

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.

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

I haven't sold my soul to conform to what anyone else wants, ... There is a nervousness and anticipation, but mainly I'm really proud of it.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

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.

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

All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials are of the view that they have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the laws of cricket when observed with the naked eye.

We will not air Howard Stern on Clear Channel stations until we are assured that his show will conform to acceptable standards of responsible broadcasting,

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

This was a tough action for us to take, especially because it impacts many people who have served National well. However, given the continuing weakness in the marketplace, it is necessary to conform our resources to the market in order to maximize National's opportunity for long-term success.

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

Society forces you to conform.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

To conform is to lose your soul

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

The Department of State has now reviewed the Palm Beach County ballot. Clay Roberts, director of the Division of Elections, and Deborah Kearney, general counsel for the Department of State, have determined that the design and layout of the ballot does conform to the law of the state of Florida,

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

And I could see the relief on my own 16-year-old daughter's face. She's a softball player, and she will not have to conform to the stereotypical view of what a female should be, of the unattainable body type that has been promoted for decades.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

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.

I just don't conform very well.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.