Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world. — Idi Amin
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a… — Victor Davis Hanson
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love. — Francoise Sagan
Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. — Paul Farmer
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the… — Ken Wilber
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. — David Suzuki
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is… — Dan Ariely
The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive.Â We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it… — Stefan Sagmeister
Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air.… — Maria Rodale
Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold… — Vincent Canby
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution.… — Colin Blakemore
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. — Martin Fleischmann
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the… — Marek Belka
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world… — Richard Marcinko
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. — Myrtle Reed
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold… — Sarah Ferguson
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. — Timothy West
Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best. — John Diamond
Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas. — John Anthony West
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you canâ€™t operate an entire conventional system, whether itâ€™s… — Prince Charles

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