Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease… — Douglas Adams
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional… — Albert Einstein
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all… — Robert A. Heinlein
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. — Steven Levitt
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For… — George Orwell
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,â€ said Eldric. â€œThey execute people in such tediously conventional ways. — Franny Billingsley
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect â€” even on Selena after a very modest quantity.… — Sarah Caudwell
Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this… — Anne Mallory
I know this isnâ€™t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldnâ€™t even be saying what I am. But… — Jojo Moyes
In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally… — Simon Pegg
ClichÃ©s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. — Hannah Arendt
For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took… — Carl Sagan
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that… — Marianne Williamson
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. — Unknown Author
Look, whenever I hear or read Iâ€™m beautiful, I simply donâ€™t understand it â€¦ Iâ€™m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make… — Audrey Hepburn
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants… — Temple Grandin
Iâ€™m not insane, Iâ€™m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence… — Bertrand Russell

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