Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

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 conventionâ€”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?â€ His stunning green eyes bore through me. â€œA corpse convention?â€ Even sweaty, Trevor was gorgeous. â€œWhat… — Ellen Schreiber
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly… — Zelda Fitzgerald
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want… — Gregory Maguire
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense… — Jamaica Kincaid
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps… — Obert Skye
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard… — Russell Brand
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of… — Kevin Hearne
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention. — Libba Bray
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand… — Emma Goldman

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