Quotes About Conventional

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.

What sort of look are you going for?" Damn, how did he answer this? "Something…normal, " he finally said.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The non-state organizations that wage it rely largely on terrorism, guerrilla tactics, and popular insurgencies. However, they also engage in small-scale conventional warfare. The perfect examples are Hezbollah in 2006 and Daesh (ISIS) in 2014–2015. Neither organization is a state. Neither maintains the usual distinctions between government, armed forces, and people. However, both have enough money, troops, and conventional weapons to do more than wage terrorism and guerrilla alone.

and so we persist in using suboptimized measurements out of superstition and habit.

Tota novel·la és convencional. La gràcia consisteix a fer que no ho sembli.

The notion of the need to revise America's global role, to palliate Islam, and achieve diplomatic distance from Israel had become conventional by the time I arrived in Washington.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn't process information in any conventional sense—or, in a way, he didn't process it at all.

Cand iubirea a disparut, viata devine oarecum conventionala si silnica; pastrezi o forma umana, comportamentele obisnuite, un soi de structura, dar sufletul, cum se spune, e gol.

You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face—who will love them now?

My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It opens up spaces for political contestation and allows for the flourishing of new forms of politics to sit alongside its more conventional ones. Feminism does not need the stable unitary subject to guarantee its politics. It needs a deeper understanding of the political nature of subjectivity and of the dynamism of politics.

New Age environmentalism and conventional environmentalism that place limits on serious, in-depth ecological thinking have been increasingly replaced by social ecology that explores the economic and institutional factors that enter into the environmental crisis.

Without recourse to the conventional The ultimate cannot be shown

the greatest harm I could possibly suffer would be to lose my liberty, to be forced into a conventional life of domestic duties and matrimony.

Does optimizing for multitasking result in better functioning—that is, creativity, inventiveness, productiveness? The answer is, in more cases than not, no," says Grafman. "The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem." You become, he argues, more likely to rely on conventional ideas and solutions rather than challenging them with original lines of thought.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Conventional Wisdom" is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.

Normal is just a settng on your dryer