Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. Itâ€™s very vague. What does that mean, â€˜outrages upon… — George W. Bush
A womanâ€™s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyesâ€¦ to speak and act in defiance of… — Margaret Sanger
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it… — Nicolas Berggruen
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on… — Maxine Greene
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is… — Harold Ford, Jr.
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here,… — David Duke
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do… — A J Liebling
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. — W. Somerset Maugham
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated… — Haim Ginott
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy… — Elmer Davis
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,… — George Santayana
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of… — Wallace Stegner
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound

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