Quotes About Convention

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

Convention center hotels play host to "Prison Expo" conventions. Since the mid-1990s these conventions feature upwards of 600 booths, touting "the latest in prison innovation and technology to more than 5,000 conventioneers.

valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them.

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger

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

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Duty . That was a word I hated as much as tradition .

For the first time since 1856, the Republican Party did not issue a platform.

Mais est-ce la bonne solution que de fermer les yeux sur l'effritement de notre vie pour ne les entrouvrir craintivement qu'à la veille de la mort ? N'est-il pas préférable de les ouvrir grands dès maintenant, pour nous demander : « Comment donner un sens à ma vie ? » Laissons tomber le masque des conventions, des compromis entretenus avec nos pairs, dans ce jeu que nous poursuivons depuis trop longtemps.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

long as man "has the physical power, as well as the conventional" to treat a woman "like a play-thing or a slave," she'd written portentously to Sophia, "woman must wait until the lion shall lie down with the lamb, before she can hope to be the friend and companion of man.

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Lawrence: A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life. In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

Me gusta esta costumbre de la rúbrica por lo inútil

The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.

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