Convenient Quotes
275 Convenient quotes by 245 unique authors
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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and…
— Allan Bloom
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
— Carlo Goldoni
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The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is…
— Francis Galton
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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a…
— Mark Twain
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It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
— Judi Dench
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The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.
— Mike Thibault
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Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories,…
— Norman Potter
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The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
— Unknown Author
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
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I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you…
— Erica Packer
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It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But…
— Katherine Stinson
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The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
— Susan Rice
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Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we…
— Noam Chomsky
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One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. . . . We will keep on…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the…
— Vaughn J Featherstone
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
— Randolph Bourne
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We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the…
— Stephen Covey
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
— Tony Abbott
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We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety…
— Siri Hustvedt
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