Convenient Quotes

275 Convenient quotes by 245 unique authors

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this… — Thom Yorke
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable. — Julian Baggini
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found… — Douglas Rushkoff
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the… — Gaston Bachelard
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One… — Carl Sagan
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a… — Benjamin Franklin
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer. — Anne Fadiman
All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of… — Megan Whalen Turner
â€¦. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be… — Albert Camus
How awfully convenient for you, regardless. And for him. He won't have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said. "He's terrified I'll… — Cassandra Clare
Love is never convenient-and rarely painless — Richard Paul Evans
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something,… — Ken Blanchard
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. — Arthur Conan Doyle
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them… — Patrick Rothfuss
Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me… — Joan Lowery Nixon
pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,… — Haruki Murakami

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