Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 396 authors

Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I… — Rajneesh
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is… — Karen Armstrong
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our… — John Thorn
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. — Agha Hasan Abedi
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… — Henry A. Kissinger
The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My… — David Lloyd George
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just… — Ricardo Semler
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four… — Deval Patrick
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in… — Eric Kierans
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. — Moby
Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in… — Richard Hall
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with… — George C. Marshall
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
I like suggesting that â€˜we are slaves to the objects around us,â€™ that â€˜plenty should be enough,â€™ or that the â€˜buyer should beware,â€™ within the… — Barbara Kruger
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box… — Laura Dern
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying… — Sean Penn
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it… — Alan Cumming

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