Convenient Quotes

275 Convenient quotes by 245 unique authors

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. — Ninon de L'Enclos
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. — Mary Todd Lincoln
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. — Arthur Middleton
I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient. — Clive Owen
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the… — Kid Rock
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the… — Eric Schlosser
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging… — Patti Smith
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of… — Evelyn Waugh
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
…. 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

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