Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments… — Paul Ryan
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. — Zoe Saldana
I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot… — Howard Schultz
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that… — Will Self
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all… — David Suzuki
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence… — Robert Winston
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never… — Bob Woodward
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. — Muhammad Yunus
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50… — Michael Eric Dyson
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional… — Martin Filler
Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance. — Anurag Kashyap
If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human… — John McPhee
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination,… — Eduardo Galeano
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to… — Javier MarÃas
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, â€œThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger… — Carl Sagan
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. — Michael Lewis

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