Quotes & Sayings About Outward Conformity And Inward Questioning

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works. — Joyce Johnson

Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people." And had I discovered if there were any communists behind the disruptions? — John Howard Griffin

I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that. — Jorge Posada

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. — William L. McKnight

Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that. — Jessica Love

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner - continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you - is a fine art, in and of itself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records. — Stephan Jenkins

Aomame thought about the jiyugaoka apartment she had just vacated. It was in an old building, not terribly clean, with the occasional cockroach, and the walls were thin - not exactly the kind of place to which one because attached. Now, though, she missed it. In this brand-new, spotless condo, she felt like an anonymous person, stripped of memory and individuality. — Haruki Murakami

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family? — John Mellencamp

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. — James Joyce

May the actions that I take toward the good, toward understanding myself, toward being more peaceful be of benefit to all beings everywhere. And — Sharon Salzberg

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft