Conventions Quotes - Page 4

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

Society's the mother of convention.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.