Top Conventional Quotes
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Franz Marc
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
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All Conventional Quotes
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery 
74% of people like this quote
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger
66% of people like this quote
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian
59% of people like this quote
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
Franz Marc
58% of people like this quote
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
John Sladek
57% of people like this quote
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
57% of people like this quote
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
David Krumholtz
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What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
James L. Buckley
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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
Bruce Sterling
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Popular Conventional Authors
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