Never Conform Quotes

#1. He was trying to accept that there were certain things that would never conform to his idea of how life should be, no matter how intensely he hoped or pretended they might.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

Rachel Holmes

#3. Struggle is in my heart all week. My own moral conflict never ceases. Knowing I cannot and must not simply submit to the standards imposed on me, and merely conform as "they" would like. This I am convinced is wrong - but the pressure never ceases.

Thomas Merton

#4. Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

Steven Brust

#6. I later spent ... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#7. Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

Camille Paglia

#8. He had been through hell and survived, and his reward had come in the form of a woman who could bend but not break, challenge but not conform, submit but not surrender. Naiya was his. Totally, utterly, and irrevocably. And he would never let her go.

Sarah Castille

#9. You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Ellie Goulding

#10. Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform.

Angela Parkhurst

#11. If you conform, you can never reform.

Debasish Mridha

#12. It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

William Stringfellow

#13. Women are still angry about feeling duped and undervalued, but instead of ignoring their kids and downing cocktails all day, as in Friedan's time, now we have the angry overdrive child-rearing style: motherhood as a competitive sport.

Laura Kipnis

#14. 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.

Jessie Cave

#15. I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

Saul Williams

#16. He did it for that bubbling, champagne-in-the-veins high, that desire to be part of someone else's new life, someone else's realised potential.
Vampires must feel like that.

Jade Chang

#17. You're created not to conform. You're unique. Find your lane. No one is like you. Your like never has been made before, will never again...

Assegid Habtewold

#18. Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Criss Jami

#19. I think it's cool that you care about your heritage, but yet you don't conform. Promise me that no matter what happens, you'll never lose that feisty, impulsive side of you.

Cindi Madsen

#20. I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

Kim Gordon

#21. Making negative assumptions based on a person's weight is never healthy. Overweight or thin, it sends the same damaging message: Your body does not conform.

Melissa Milne

#22. When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

Jennifer Armintrout

#23. 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.

Andrew Cohen

#24. At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Sean Parker

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

Justin Townes Earle