Conformable Quotes

#1. Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

Sophie Swetchine

#2. The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

#3. The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

Joseph Addison

#4. Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Blaise Pascal

#5. I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. God's purpose in providence is not to make us comfortable, but to make us conformable,

Warren W. Wiersbe

#8. When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.

Cesare Beccaria

#9. Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Susan Sontag

#11. I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

Aristotle.

#12. Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

Baron D'Holbach

#13. Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

Isaac Newton

#14. The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

Dante Alighieri

#15. For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

William Shakespeare

#16. My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#17. Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Giambattista Vico

#18. The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

Isaac Newton

#19. The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.

Thomas Paine

#20. Why don't we get drunk and screw?

Jimmy Buffett

#21. Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

Walt Whitman

#22. I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

Chris Stapleton

#23. I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.

Stephen King

#24. Confidence is everything, but a little makeup can't hurt.

Bobbi Brown

#25. I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

Harlan Ellison

#26. Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.

Donald G. Firesmith

#27. Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

Rachel Carson

#28. There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

Michael Nutter

#29. The woman who'd killed me was really starting to piss me off.

Sharon Stevenson

#30. But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Jane Austen