Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. — Radclyffe Hall
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how… — Yann Martel
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of… — Tarun J. Tejpal
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
Where are you off to in such a hurry?â€ His stunning green eyes bore through me. â€œA corpse convention?â€ Even sweaty, Trevor was gorgeous. â€œWhat… — Ellen Schreiber
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly… — Zelda Fitzgerald
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the… — Judith Martin
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want… — Gregory Maguire
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense… — Jamaica Kincaid
If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting… — David Platt
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are… — Wallace Stegner
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments… — Rob Bell
I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps… — Obert Skye
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard… — Russell Brand
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of… — Kevin Hearne

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