Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. — Andrew Vachss
Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same… — Jesse Ventura
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes… — Gustave Flaubert
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and… — Graham Chapman
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. — W. Somerset Maugham
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. — Wassily Kandinsky
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,… — Maurice Blanchot
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman… — Camille Paglia
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almondâ€” surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo… — Louise GluÌˆck
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. — Gregory Maguire
To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do.… — Russell Brand
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can… — W. Somerset Maugham
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen… — James Frey
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… — W. Somerset Maugham
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between… — Alberto Manguel
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as… — Wendell Berry
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their… — Milan Kundera

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