Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.
Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play.
I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.
What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.
Seabeck is slow to change.
I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things.
I think I am a conservative, not-so-cool kind of guy.
There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.
I'm rather conservative when it comes to what I wear.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.
I'm old-fashioned and a square.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.
The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.
The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.
To change just because of change, that is not my idea at all.
My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
