And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
“One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond… — Charles Coulson Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The state of convenience lies in the hands of proper planning. When you know this, you will become a good planner; and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally,… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the… — Elizabeth West Copy Share Image
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Our guest likes the convenience of being able of drive up to the store and not necessarily walk through a mall to… — Mary Dillon Copy Share Image
