Conventions Quotes · Page 22

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

— Carol Bellamy

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will…

— Agnes Repplier

Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives:…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political…

— Michael Beschloss

Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial…

— Rich Sommer

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of…

— Karl Marx

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

— Anonymous

It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has…

— Mary Robinson

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

— David Brooks

Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only…

— Sextus Empiricus

I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions,…

— Eric Shinseki

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

— Steve Vai

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for…

— Jamaica Kincaid

With Dawn I was afraid people would just think it's a B-movie and I didn't know what I was doing. That's really…

— Zack Snyder

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés…

— Winifred Holtby

Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing…

— Thubten Yeshe

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

— Sol LeWitt

This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican…

— Jeff Sessions

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment…

— Mark Twain

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and…

— Charles Guggenheim

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to…

— Russell Smith

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.…

— Paul Ryan

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we…

— Charles Eisenstein