Expedient Quotes
101 quotes by 91 authors
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy…
— Maya Angelou
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In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The…
— Walter Prescott Webb
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the…
— Andre Gide
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
— Alan Paton
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In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the…
— Konrad Lorenz
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
— Dexter Scott King
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I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot…
— Richard Branson
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
— Aldo Leopold
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Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,…
— Steve Perry
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Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the…
— George Washington
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To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
— James Madison
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
— Norm MacDonald
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