#convent

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

I really do the conventions now for two reasons. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #now #really #reasons #two

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

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#conventions #despicable #human #human nature #nature

I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #lead #life #very

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point. ↗

— Harold Ford

#convention #done #forward #four #hasn

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#conventional #conventional way #doing #fresh #just

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had