Convenience Quotes

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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

~ Sanhita Baruah

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.

~ Howard Tayler

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

~ Victoria Moran

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.

~ Kelly Thompson

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Amitav Chowdhury

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.

~ Amit Kalantri

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Charles Coulson

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

~ Shannon A. Thompson

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.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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?

~ Colin Beavan

The state of convenience lies in the hands of proper planning. When you know this, you will become a good planner; and when you become a good planner, you save your life from stress!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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.

~ Charles Yu

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.

~ William Godwin

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

~ Aditya Ajmera

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)

~ Wendell Berry

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.

~ Thomas Munro

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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.

~ Daven Anderson

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

~ Anne Brontë

If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Danielle Valenilla

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.

~ Christina Engela

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.

~ E.b. White

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.

~ Patrice Kindl

The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo – which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing “collective bargaining”, not actually mutiny, but hey – the results are the same. He tended to favor the term “piracy”, but this wasn’t the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook – at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.

~ Christina Engela

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.

~ Mango Wodzak