Best 75 quotes in «convenience quotes» category

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.

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.

Many people have played with the 4P’s and even with the 4C’s, tried to put their own particular stamp on it, but at the risk of sounding arrogant, no variation I’ve ever seen has expressed the outside-in concept as simply and elegantly as the original 4C’s formulation.

Our community deserves leaders who should know what debates and arguments are better conducted out of the public eye, instead of dumping their baskets of dirty laundry all over the internet. Our community deserves leaders who do not put political expedience or convenience before their commitments to those they supposedly represent. Our community deserves leaders who do not make about-turns on issues such as freedom of speech and accountability to the community they serve when it becomes too embarrassing for them, or too uncomfortable. Our community deserves leaders who can and want to work together, not fling their handbags at each other, hissing like drama queens.

Morality is a subject to meddle in the affairs of other persons, guided by our preferences and convenience.

One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists.

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

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.

Seemed to me a phone was an impersonal instrument. If it felt like it, it let your personality go through its wires. If it didn't want to, it just drained your personality away until what slipped through at the other end was some cold fish of a voice, all steel, copper, plastic, no warmth, no reality. It's easy to say the wrong thing on telephones; the telephone changes your meaning on you. First thing you know, you've made an enemy. Then, of course, the telephone's such a convenient thing; it just sits there and demands you call someone who doesn't want to be called. Friends were always calling, calling, calling me. Hell, I hadn't any time of my own.

Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.

So you're a fellow mercenary, then." "Does this mean you'll afford me some professional courtesy?" "Don't ask for that. All it means is that you might get to face the person who kills you. . . But only if it's convenient.

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

Nature doesn't give a damn for convenience, and never has.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

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.