Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot… — Michael Beschloss
If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that… — Pete Sessions
Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good… — Bob Barr
For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of… — Vincent Nichols
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all… — Emma Goldman
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you… — Octave Mirbeau
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody… — Wystan Hugh Auden
With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions,… — Louis Auchincloss
I love sex... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic. There are few rules and moral conventions. — Jayne Mansfield
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. — Michael Beschloss
Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. — Peter Brimelow
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making… — Bill Mumy
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback… — David Lloyd
Some people think that it's best to refrain from the conventions of old-fashioned love. Their hearts are filled with holes and emptiness. They tell themselves… — Brandon Flowers
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become… — Aleister Crowley
Symbols have one characteristic in common with signs; they point beyond themselves to something else. The red sign at the street corner points to the… — Paul Tillich
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after… — John Ruskin
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. — Bryan Singer

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