Conventions Quotes · Page 24

Liverpool have played with no real convention

— Ray Houghton

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

— Mary Cheney

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire…

— Richie Benaud

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should…

— Samantha Power

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

— Carla Gugino

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes…

— Ted Nelson

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first…

— Jon Stewart

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no…

— Christopher Lasch

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

— Bill Brandt

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

— Garry Kasparov

I have a fun time, doing the meet and greets, the pictures and the autographs. Every show I've ever done, lends itself…

— David Anders

And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the…

— Barack Obama

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love…

— Uta Barth

Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment,…

— John McCain

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is…

— Jim Bush

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

— Denis Diderot

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after…

— Henry Hazlitt

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to…

— Daniel Gillies

Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly…

— Noam Chomsky

Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.…

— Shirin Ebadi

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure…

— Walter Wriston