Convenient Quotes · Page 5

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at…

— Mitch Hedberg

Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

— Harsha Bhogle

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

— Ronald H. Nash

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

— Yasser Arafat

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

If you're interested in something, you will do what is convenient. If you're committed to something, you will do whatever it takes.

— Anonymous

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

— Joseph Conrad

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

— Barack Obama

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and…

— Frederick Lenz

“Mauna Kea astronomers need to engage in a convenient ignorance regarding the biological toxicity of the observatories to obtain their tainted astronomical…

— Steven Magee

“Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave…

— Israelmore Ayivor

One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any…

— Frederick Lenz

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this…

— Russell Brand

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are…

— Tom Rath

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make…

— George Horace Lorimer

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance…

— Garth Greenwell

Italians are never punctual; the café, the convenient place to wait, absolves them from that. There is no question of hanging about,…

— Shirley Hazzard

We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work…

— Peter Vidmar

The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class…

— John Adams

The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction…

— Evelyn Underhill

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many…

— Richard Askey

Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,…

— R. D. Laing

I don't expect that the president-elect [Donald Trump] will follow exactly our blueprint or our approach, but my hope is that he…

— Barack Obama

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

— Frederick Lenz

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

— Eric Thomas

We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

— Wayne Visser

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

— Henri Poincare

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

— Catherine Deneuve

If you're really my friend then you're my friend all the time. Not when it's just convenient for you at the moment!

— Terri Amshey

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

— Colin Maclaurin

We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in

— Arun Sarin

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

— Ronald Fisher

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

You never want to waste your time with someone who only wants you around when it's convenient for them.

— Bakare

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

Develop your Intuition so that the changes in the years to come may be convenient for you.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

— Henri Poincare

I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

— Stacy Schiff

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

— Langston Hughes