Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I… — Terry Pratchett
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been… — Will Rogers
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. — Bertrand Russell
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the… — Paul Ryan
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. — Franz Schubert
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?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 almondâ€” 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

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