Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much… — Barack Obama
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to… — Steven Pinker
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I… — Terry Pratchett
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been… — Will Rogers
I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors… — George A. Romero
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. — Bertrand Russell
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the… — Paul Ryan
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. — Franz Schubert
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? — Charles Schumer
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would… — Norman Schwarzkopf
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that… — Will Self
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are… — William Shatner
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to… — Simon Sinek
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I… — Peter Singer
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's… — Stephen Sondheim
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. — Adlai E. Stevenson
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. — Tom Stoppard
One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take… — Marlo Thomas

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