Best 75 quotes in «convenience quotes» category

The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical processes and the invention of new ones, accompanied by an even more remarkable development of old and new means of locomotion and intercommunication. By this rapid and vast multiplication of the commodities and conveniences of existence, the general standard of comfort has been raised, the ravages of pestilence and famine have been checked, and the natural obstacles, which time and space offer to mutual intercourse, have been reduced in a manner, and to an extent, unknown to former ages. The diminution or removal of local ignorance and prejudice, the creation of common interests among the most widely separated peoples, and the strengthening of the forces of the organisation of the commonwealth against those of political or social anarchy, thus effected, have exerted an influence on the present and future fortunes of mankind the full significance of which may be divined, but cannot, as yet, be estimated at its full value.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.

The only real reason that some relationships and marriages have not yet been ended is because in each case one of the partners has not yet found their ideal partner or someone they love or at least like.

There is no window to look outside. There is no window to look within. Open the doors.

Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it. Whatever it is she let me have, she has taken it away. Whatever it is when two people agree to briefly occupy the same space, agree to allow their lives to overlap in some small area, some temporary region of the world, a region they create through love or convenience, or for us, something even more meager, whatever that was, it has collapsed, it has closed. She has closed herself to me.

We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.

When someone has enough money, logistics can be worked out in no time.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing poor work we weaken our bodies and lose conviviality and health? (Health is Membership, pg. 93)

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

While setting your goal keeps you focused, search for meaning keeps the world in focus. You can’t avoid your responsibilities for personal convenience and set to lead a life that is full of indifference to the world.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

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

Public offices were not made for private convenience.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?