#convent

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.


Adlai E. Stevenson


#convention #four #i #nations #peace

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.


Anil Kapoor


#get #i #inspiration #stories #unconventional

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.


Tom Stoppard


#like #media #sounds

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.


Peter King


#auschwitz #away #bridges #building #community

The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")


Catherine Crowe


#creepy #silence #business

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#among #comes #conventional #kind #literacy

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.


Anthon St. Maarten


#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.


Agha Hasan Abedi


#definition #developing #done #getting #management

He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection.


Ayn Rand


#convention #society #life

Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father Ramon coughed. 'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.


Jacqueline Carey


#convent #dystopian #orphanage #toast #men