#conventional

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. ↗

— Andre Breton

#easily #even #exaltation #experienced #feeling

Conventionality is not morality. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#morality

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

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

— Hedy Lamarr

#arts #convention #conventional #despise #enemy

I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #lead #life #very

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #city #conventional #european #extreme

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

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conventional wisdom #enemy #events #ideas #march

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗