In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. — Florence King Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of. — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those… — Greg Evigan Copy Share Image
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I… — Mackenzie Rosman Copy Share Image
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I have seen American determination in people like Debbi Sommers. She runs a furniture rental business for conventions in Las Vegas. When… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And -… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I wanted people to kind of take a peek to see that the pain, even though you may see them out at… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
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