#convent

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#away #conventional #conventional wisdom #i #know

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. ↗

— Joan Jett

#band #being #company #conventional #create

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#candidates #chance #convention #delegates #fact

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

— Anthony Kiedis

#defying #i #idea #like #your

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#better off #care #conventional #conventional wisdom #enough

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? ↗

— Charles Schumer

#geneva #geneva convention #obsolete #others #our

I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay. ↗

— John Sebastian

#conventional #everybody #guitars #guys #hearing