Top 1200 Constitutional Convention Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

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

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

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

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

The path we have chosen is constitutional.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

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

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

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

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

I dont feel qualified or that I really have time to be involved with the Southern Baptist Convention.

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

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

I'm an American. I have constitutional rights.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

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

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

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

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

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