Convene Quotes

#1. I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

Anna Deavere Smith

#2. If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Jules Verne

#6. Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Bill Gates

#7. It's the hipsters," David said. "It's retro. They need a place to convene and argue whether Holden Caulfield was deep or just a spoiled brat.

T.J. Klune

#8. When we convene a group for gender healing and reconciliation, we are collectively taking similar action. We stretch ourselves to a larger consciousness and grace that is beyond our capacity, but within our reach.

William Keepin

#9. Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

John Conyers

#10. All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

Gwen Ifill

#11. I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . .

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. Violet sighed in the way you do when you know something bad is going to happen, but hope against hope that it won't, but it does anyway and you realize that you always knew it would and were stupid for having made yourself believe that you could stop it.

Victoria Forester

#13. Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yahya Jammeh

#14. For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

Michael Musto

#15. God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.

Zig Ziglar

#16. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

#17. After two months of horrible computer problems, I had concluded that the free Windows 10 installation was an unreliable lobotomized operating system as compared to Windows 7 on a 2011 HP G72-B50US laptop computer.

Steven Magee

#18. Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

Charlie Chaplin

#19. I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

Tom Hollander

#20. Real communication happens when people feel safe.

Ken Blanchard