Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.
‐‐ Saul Griffith
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
‐‐ Nick Clooney
Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
‐‐ Doug Ducey
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
‐‐ Archibald MacLeish
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
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
‐‐ Chip Conley
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
‐‐ Therese Fowler
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
‐‐ Ariel Gore
Conventionality is not morality.
‐‐ Charlotte Bronte
Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
‐‐ Roland Joffe
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier
Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin
Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
‐‐ Peter Sellers
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
‐‐ Anna Jameson
Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!
‐‐ Sevyn Streeter
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
‐‐ Andre Maurois
Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
‐‐ Laura Wasser
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
‐‐ Padgett Powell
Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.
‐‐ Garcelle Beauvais
Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
‐‐ Prince Harry
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
‐‐ John Stuart Blackie
Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
‐‐ Merrill Markoe
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein
Conversion brings a drive to learn.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
‐‐ Madeleine L'Engle
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
‐‐ Billy Sunday
Conversion is a daily thing.
‐‐ Jim Caviezel
Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.
‐‐ Richard G. Scott
Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.
‐‐ David A. Bednar
Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
‐‐ David A. Bednar
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
‐‐ Dalai Lama
Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions do not imply reasons.
‐‐ Margaret Deland
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
‐‐ Bono
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
‐‐ Marvin Bower
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
‐‐ John Strachan
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada