Uglies Conformity Quotes & Sayings

[D]on't be so open minded that your brain falls out. — Nick Alexander

Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants ... not that you're ...
Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead
Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant. — Alex Flinn

I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt. — Simone Weil

Our first love is always Jesus, whether we're single, dating, or married. — Lacey Sturm

He's got places to go, people to see . . . , — Julie Garwood

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Robert Louis Stevenson ... was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be — Quintin Jardine

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister

We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. — Pablo Picasso

Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging. — Paul Stewart

You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud.
"My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not. — Jasper Fforde

I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves. — Miranda July

Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because no one else does it for them, especially not those sotong RI boys. — Justin Ker

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics ... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group. — Emile Durkheim