I think that weight divisions in wrestling is a little silly as we never adhere to them.
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
Everyone in the world, regardless if they're Muslim or not, does not have to adhere to the label society slaps on you.
Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.
As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.
If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn't look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.
Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.
I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
The first thing that strikes a person when it comes to Southern film industries is the hard work, professionalism and the punctuality that people religiously adhere to.
If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.
In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.
Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.
I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.
I am not one to adhere to silly clothing rules. I love mixing metals, wearing a brown bag with black shoes, whatever.
I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.
I am disciplined and tend to stick to my workout regime and eating habit and adhere to them strictly.
My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.
[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - Hawk
Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.
There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either mentally or physically.
I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.
It is very important that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency adhere to the same classification guidelines that all employees must adhere to because there are very good reason for those classification guidelines.
God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three.
Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?
I do not adhere to any strict diet plans as I feel they do more harm.
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.
In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
We could try and establish a world in which the great and the powerful adhere to that international law which they require ordinary mortals to adhere to. In other words, there is one international law, and even America and even Russia and China and Japan must adhere to it, and Australia must adhere to it.
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
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