Quotes About Convention

The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead in a British equivalent of 'Breaking Bad.'

1845, when the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society declared that any slave owner would be disqualified from consideration for missionary service, Baptist churches in the South seceded and formed the Southern Baptist Convention so that members would not have to choose between their slaves and their calling to be missionaries.

No convention of the gangster film is more strongly established than this: it is dangerous to be alone. And yet the very conditions of success make it impossible not to be alone…. The successful man is an outlaw.

Nobody can be entirely protected from the mishaps of life. If anything should happen to Lee—and it would be the end of me if it did—I would still feel that I did the right thing for him. Success or failure, he is fulfilling his destiny. We all have only one life, some are short and some are long. He loves life and wants a little more out of it than to follow convention out of fear of what others may think, or to be just another face in the crowd that follows the herd.

What you call ancient custom is just a bad habit. Somebody did something stupid long ago and you've been doing it ever since. It doesn't make anything better. It only gets stupider and stupider.

On July 16, the thick gloom finally lifted at Philadelphia when delegates agreed to a grand bargain, the so-called Connecticut Compromise, proposed by Roger Sherman of Connecticut and others. The major conflicts at the convention had perhaps hinged less on the question of federal versus state power than on how federal representation was apportioned among the states.

Conforming to tradition, the convention sent a delegation to Grant with official notice of his nomination. In return, he scratched out a statement that mostly dealt in standard rhetoric, concluding with four words that formed the slogan of his campaign and remained irreversibly associated with him: "Let us have peace.

The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states—the renegade Rhode Island boycotted the convention—scarcely constituted a cross section of America. They were white, educated males and mostly affluent property owners.

When Franklin suggested on June 28th that each session start with a prayer for heavenly help, Hamilton countered that this might foster a public impression that embarrassments and dissensions within the convention had suggested this measure. According to legend, Hamilton also rebutted Franklin with the jest that the convention didn't need foreign aid.

Lo que públicamente se entiende por normal no es lo más habitual, sino lo normativo, lo convencionalmente obligatorio. Pero dentro del secreto de nuestra intimidad, todos nos desviamos de la regla, todos somos de algún modo heterodoxos.

nuestros prejuicios nos encierran, nos achican la cabeza, nos idiotizan; y cuando estos prejuicios coinciden, como suele suceder, con la convención mayoritaria, nos convierten en cómplices del abuso y la injusticia, como en el caso de Wilde.

porque en realidad lo que llamamos locura es algo que causa un pavor general. Produce tanto miento, y tan irracional, que las personas que sufren alguna enfermedad mental son estigmatizadas y aisladas socialmente, cosa que empeora de manera fatal su dolencia. Porque estar loco, ya lo he dicho antes, es sobre todo estar solo. Es una ruptura de la narración común, es salirse de la convención social.

La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.

En realidad, lo que perdió al bueno de Zola en este caso fue el prejuicio. Y es que nuestros prejuicios nos encierran, nos achican la cabeza, nos idiotizan; y cuando estos prejuicios coinciden, como suele suceder, con la convención mayoritaria, nos convierten en cómplices del abuso y la injusticia, como en el caso de Wilde.

Los movimientos socialmente anómalos dejan fisuras en el entramado convencional por donde se escapan los espíritus más libres

con el tiempo he descubierto que la normalidad no existe; que no viene de la palabra normal, como sinónimo de lo más común, lo más abundante, lo más habitual, sino de norma, de regulación y de mandato. La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco; pero, si miras desde lo suficientemente cerca, todos somos distintos.

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Only a year after ratifying the UN Convention against Torture, Clinton thus violated one of its key clauses, indicating that Washington would continue to favor covert operations over compliance with international law.

A fortuneteller at a magicians' convention in Atlantic City once told him that when he fell in love it would be forever, and he laughed at the notion, but now he sees that reading was completely on target.

President Franklin Roosevelt] was a great tickler of sacred cows not bred on his own pastures.

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

Being family gave you obligations. Jesus and Paul's language about church as family was radical talk and not merely cultural convention.