Convention Quote by James D. Best

“What grade?” I ask. “Military, third class. Two four-gun lancers, and an eight-gun Storm-class corvette. They’re Ascomanni.” “How can you tell?” I ask. “They…

— Pierce Brown

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

“Yielding to convention yields nothing new.”

— Rich DiSilvio

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the…

— Barton Gellman

The calendar? A mere convention.

— Irina Ratushinskaya

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

— Elizabeth Bowen

“We'd been trying so hard to look like our heroes, we'd kinda forgotten what a hero really is. Capes, masks, powers — sure, that's…

— Mikko