Quotes about unconventional (16 Quotes)


    Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.


    There is coming the time, sometime in the next decade, during which our global ability to produce conventional oil on a daily basis will hit a peak. It will probably not be directly recognizable at the time, owing to ongoing improvements driven by technology, economic factors, and a gradual improvement of production of unconventional oils and other sources of energy.

    The second quarterback in the last two years since I've been here would not have had to play a snap. He did because of situations where we were way far ahead or way behind. We had Jose Davis. We felt great that he could come in and play and play effectively. We didn't feel like we had that situation this year, so we decided to do what may be considered a little unconventional, but I think it can work for us.



    Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

    Two trends will cycle high in our culture cocooning, our desire to shelter ourselves from the harsh realities of our world, and fantasy adventure, our hunger for the new and unconventional.


    The draft says that to deter a potential adversary from using unconventional weapons, the United States must make it believe the United States has both the ability and will to pre-empt or retaliate promptly with responses that are credible and effective. ... repeatedly rejected calls for adoption of 'no first use' policy of nuclear weapons since this policy could undermine deterrence.




    When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. Its not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.


    A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.




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