Convention Quotes

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

Long, After, Chance

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 carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

Prayer, Lord, Rest

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Themselves, Criticism, Fury

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 to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
Barack Obama

Happy, Friends, America

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Movies, True, Lies

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley

Age, Mean, Moon

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr

Enemy, Arts, Despise

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 duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.
Paul Ryan

Crisis, Help, Accept

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 last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry Pratchett

Long, Game, Person

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Peace, Political, After

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Nicolas Chamfort

Nature, Husband, Parents

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.
Hugh Jackman

Through, Thought, Sometimes

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Irving Babbitt

Great, Romantic, Leaders

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert

Wise, Fool, Greatest

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 the point.
Stephen Sondheim

Enjoy, Song, Point

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.
Dee Dee Myers

Thought, Young, Democratic

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes

Power, May, Ideas

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 couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
Peter Singer

Said, Wrong, Prove

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
William Hague

Politics, Same, Again

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler

Vanity, Delusion, Renounce

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
J. C. Watts

Trying, Speak, Stand

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Andrew Vachss

Home, Kids, Far

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
Anthony Kiedis

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
Charles Schumer

Others, Soldiers, Obsolete

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
Emanuel Celler

Men, Honest, Republican

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
Karl Rove

Book, Rules, House

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.
Nathan Fillion

Life, Good, God

My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion

Down, Before, Big

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Poor, Tangible, Benefits

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