Best 75 quotes in «convenience quotes» category

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.

Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.

The internet might be a convenience, but it hasn't yet, for me, been a fundamental reordering. These things are supposed to be time-savers, so you have more time standing at your easel if you so choose.

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

...a mini-hearse. It had the practicality of a mini-van and the handy carrying capacity of a hearse combined. If you get annoyed with your kids at soccer practice, you can always kill them on the way home and take them directly to the cemetery.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

A family which stays together for selfish reasons and not out of love does not stay together for long. When the family is humoured for convenience and necessity, its utility gets over soon. In such cases, children don’t need their parents when they grow up. A wife does not need her husband if she earns her livelihood. A husband may be attracted to a younger and more beautiful woman to fill his life. Parents do not want to waste time and money in bringing up their children who may leave them on growing up and won’t be available in time of need. An investment in a bank would perhaps be more reliable for old age than investment on children.

A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady Beatrice that, though she had been sincerely mourned when Mamma had been under the impression she was dead, her unexpected return to life was something more than inconvenient. Had she never considered the disgrace she would inflict upon her family by returning, after all that had happened to her? What were all Aunt Harriet's neighbors to think?

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

A sacrifice is not convenient. If it is something we can easily do, then it is not a sacrifice.

A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.

By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. but would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.

Convenient ignorance is a common problem in the modern workplace.

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

En el amor nadie piensa en la conveniencia.

For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.

Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.

I hate it when I go into a Snack Shack and they're out of Blue Ice. The other slushie flavors taste like cheap candy.

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people – then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo.

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Imagine being part of a people who thought life was worth less than the convenience of a moment.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.