Conventions Quotes - Page 3

• First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

  Michael Beschloss

  Party, Political, Firsts

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• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

  Mark Shields

  Vietnam, Bills, Chance

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• The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

  Paul Signac

  Fighting, Individuality, Individualism

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• I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

  Anne Parillaud

  Law, Feelings, Live In The Moment

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• It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

  John Yoo

  War, Iraq, Differences

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• 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

  Romantic Love, Leader, Aspiration

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  Hans Blix

  War, Kyoto Protocol, Iraq

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• What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

  Yoweri Museveni

  War, Geneva, Geneva Convention

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• We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Training, Association

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  Northrop Frye

  Kings, Stupid, Sheep

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.143, Princeton University Press

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• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  Gary Bauer

  Thinking, Would Be, Speak

  "GOP Gays Have a Talk With Bush / Session makes him a `better person,' he says" by Terry M. Neal, www.sfgate.com. April 14, 2000.

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• I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

  Jon Postel

  Names, Space, Essentials

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• Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, Artist, Rocks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Years, Two, Trying

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• We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

  Anna Lindh

  Agreement, Iraq, Community

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• Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Massachusetts, Old Time

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• I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

  Donna Douglas

  School, College, Church

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• This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  War, Agreement, Geneva

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• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  Xunzi

  Teacher, Humility, Order

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• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  Ian Hart

  Dad, Father, Drama

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

  Otto Hahn

  War, Details, Poison

  Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  Otto Hahn

  Poison, Firsts, Used

  Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald

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• Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Today, Tomorrow, Shock

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  Xunzi

  Nature, Giving, Criminals

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Years, Political, Four

  The New York Times, August 14, 1964.

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