I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
“...convention [is] the most subtle but oppressive dictator. [Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]” — Pip Williams Copy Share Image
“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway… — Linda McCartney Copy Share Image
The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond… — Claron McFadden Copy Share Image
But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.” — Carolyn Chun Copy Share Image
“One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me. — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the… — Laraine Day Copy Share Image
“My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention. — Blair Brown Copy Share Image
