Convenience Quotes

266 Convenience quotes by 224 unique authors

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a… — Alan Watts
Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldn’t go… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible… — Judith Martin
This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even… — Deb Caletti
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational… — Peter Straub
By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if… — Elwyn Brooks White
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past,… — Sebastian Barry
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom… — Anne Lamott
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him:… — Sarah MacLean
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have… — Henry David Thoreau
pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ;… — Dalai Lama
Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has… — Thomas Keller
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a… — Dave Eggers
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance,… — W S Merwin
Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience. — Patrice Kindl
The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth;… — Chris Colfer
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since… — Haruki Murakami
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He… — Alan Watts
Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning." His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required. — Sylvia Day
Let's pick it up," the man behind her said. "How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?" "Just three," the girl panted. "Gonna have… — Marissa Meyer
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a… — Benjamin Franklin

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