Conventions Quotes

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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time… — Rudolf Arnheim
By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. — Carol Bellamy
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. — David Brinkley
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. — Barbara Bush
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change… — Barbara Bush
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you… — Jonathan Carroll
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men. — Emanuel Celler
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as… — Nicolas Chamfort
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib… — John Yoo
There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that… — Jim Bush
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of… — Bill Bradley
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon… — David Ogilvy
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic… — Benjamin Franklin
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. — H. L. Mencken
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,… — Norman Mailer
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists… — Edward Robert Harrison
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income… — Walter Wriston

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