Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

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.

James A. Baldwin

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Norman Mailer

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

Mason Cooley

Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

Shane Koyczan

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

Eric Hoffer

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone

James Richardson

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Kofi Annan

particular to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the service of the ideals of the United Nations.

Source Unknown

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Bruce Gordon

Not only is he diametrically opposed to all that the NAACP has worked for, but ... is intent on promoting his personal ideals and beliefs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.