Conventions Quotes · Page 5

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of…

— Jon Corzine

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

— George Santayana

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when…

— Josh Earnest

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in…

— John Yoo

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or…

— Samuel Adams

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

— Rachel Cohn

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

Conventions are expensive to run and attend.

— Hank Green

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice…

— Huey Long

There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the…

— Aldo Leopold

Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of…

— Obert Skye

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a…

— James Fenton

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they…

— Bill Maher

Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us…

— Margaret Millar

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as…

— Yaya Han

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

I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful…

— David Ogilvy

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching…

— Chuck Close

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

— Ellen Key

This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up"…

— John Heilemann

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

— Megan Alexander

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

— Democritus