Convenience Quotes

266 quotes by 231 authors

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a… — Anthony Bourdain
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the… — James Buchan
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone… — Maya Angelou
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house… — Abraham Cowley
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from… — Edmund Burke
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. — Edward Bond
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a… — Chip Kidd
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience… — Norbert Wiener
There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which… — Giordano Bruno
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for… — George W. Bush
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to… — Rajneesh
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the… — B.F. Skinner
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. — George Washington
It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity,… — Marlo Morgan
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon

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