Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become… — Jack Vance
I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying… — Helen Slater
The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. Itâ€™s very vague. What does that mean, â€˜outrages upon… — George W. Bush
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are… — Frederic Bastiat
A womanâ€™s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyesâ€¦ to speak and act in defiance of… — Margaret Sanger
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. — Brad Thor
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it… — Nicolas Berggruen
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on… — Maxine Greene
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is… — Harold Ford, Jr.
Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here,… — David Duke
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the… — Caleb Cushing
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to… — Li Peng
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do… — A J Liebling

Who Wrote These Conventions Quotes

377 authors contributed a total of 458 Conventions Quotes, led by these top contributors: