Conveniences Quotes

40 quotes by 37 authors

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. — Robert Staughton Lynd
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of… — Nikola Tesla
The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite… — Nelson Rockefeller
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit… — Samuel Johnson
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent.… — Criss Jami
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. — Joyce Meyer
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our… — David Suzuki
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could. — Charles R. Swindoll
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is… — Ayn Rand
No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the… — Wendell Berry
Ah, those were the daysâ€¦The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldnâ€™t go… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
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
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
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial… — Leo Tolstoy
Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should… — James E. Faust
The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of… — John Eldredge
Truly Living What could explain the increasing growth of psychiatry and diminished importance of faith; fancier houses and broken homes; higher incomes and more divorce… — Alan Ault

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