Expedient Quotes

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Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it… — Carl Sagan
I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right… — Garth Stein
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted… — Maya Angelou
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more… — Ann Voskamp
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness,… — Alexander Hamilton
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. — Joshua Reynolds
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or… — Sigmund Freud
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains… — Antonio Damasio
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and,… — Hassan Rouhani
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. — Alan Paton
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. — Joshua Reynolds
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life… — Barbara Amiel
Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In… — Ronald Reagan
And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward… — Bible
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison — Joshua Reynolds
For the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
FIRST keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more good than a… — Thomas Kempis
When you left my presence, you left expedient. You ain't no fuckin killer, youse a comedian, beyotch. — DJ Quik

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