Convenes Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. — Paul Johnson

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. — Tryon Edwards

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening. — Jurgen E. Schrempp

Sometimes her curiosity got the better of her and she found herself furtively asking questions about his life before Grange Hall, pretending as she did so that she wasn't really that interested. The truth was that Peter was a window through which Anna could glimpse the world outside, and the temptation to keep looking was quite overwhelming. — Gemma Malley

How, you may ask yourself, did he do it? One word. That's all you really need to know. Poison. — Suzanne Collins

When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears. — Sun Tzu

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough. — Diane Chamberlain

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. — Douglas Dunn

But I like the inconveniences."
"We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley

A man who can reason over trifles will become conceited, and will take pleasure in being described as 'odd'. He will start boasting that he was born with a personality that doesn't fit well with contemporary society, and be convinced that nobody else is above him. He will surely meet with divine retribution. Regardless of what abilities a man may possess, he will be of little use if rejected by others. People don't slight those who are eager to help and serve well, and who readily exhibit humility to their associates. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y. — Old Farmer's Almanac

The whole gospel is contained in Christ. — John Calvin

I don't think I should have been married ... to anybody. — Mercedes McCambridge

I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself. — Dejan Stojanovic