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 Copy Share Image
We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient. — Gotye Copy Share Image
Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I have to say that it's a weird feeling to have to respond to a Christian leader of an anti-Muslims organisation -… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
Things like email, and Twitter, and Facebook, and text messaging - they all work reasonably well. But we use them because they're… — Palmer Luckey Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
