Quotes about convenience
Wendell Berry - Another Turn of the Crank
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)
Thomas Munro -
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
Mango Wodzak - The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
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
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
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!
Charles Yu - Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
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.
William Godwin - John of Gaun
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.
Aditya Ajmera -
Morality is a subject to meddle in the affairs of other persons, guided by our preferences and convenience.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.
Christina Engela -
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 emba
Danielle Valenilla - Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes
We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi -
A sacrifice is not convenient. If it is something we can easily do, then it is not a sacrifice.
Daven Anderson -
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.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.
E.B. White - Here Is New York
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.
Patrice Kindl - Keeping the Castle
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.
Christina Engela - Blachart
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 muti
Sanhita Baruah -
There is no window to look outside.There is no window to look within.Open the doors.
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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.
Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
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
Colin Beavan - No Impact Man
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?
Shannon A. Thompson - Minutes Before Sunset
I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)
Charles Coulson -
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.
Howard Tayler - Emperor Pius Dei
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.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
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.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.
Victoria Moran - Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)
Kelly Thompson - The Girl Who Would Be King
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.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
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 - Killosophy
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.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.
Shannon L. Alder -
Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.
Amit Kalantri -
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.
Amitav Chowdhury -
For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.