Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? — Charles Schumer
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to… — Simon Sinek
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I… — Peter Singer
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's… — Stephen Sondheim
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. — Adlai E. Stevenson
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. — Tom Stoppard
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. — Andrew Vachss
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and… — Graham Chapman
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. — W. Somerset Maugham
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,… — Maurice Blanchot
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo… — Louise GluÌˆck
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. — Gregory Maguire
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can… — W. Somerset Maugham
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen… — James Frey
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — W. Somerset Maugham
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. — Radclyffe Hall
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how… — Yann Martel
While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of… — Tarun J. Tejpal
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
Where are you off to in such a hurry?” His stunning green eyes bore through me. “A corpse convention?” Even sweaty, Trevor was gorgeous. “What… — Ellen Schreiber

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