Convenience Quotes - Page 2

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Happened, Foreseeing

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.299

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• The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Culture, Criteria

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Men, Challenges

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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

  George Washington

  Friendship, Thinking, Interest

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.310

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sick, Leisure, Illness

  Journals Vol. V

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• A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

  B. F. Skinner

  Science, Technology, Dedication

  "Reflections on Behaviorism and Society". Book by B. F. Skinner, 1978.

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• Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Travel, Integrity, Journey

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

  Tommy Cooper

  Wife, Funny Marriage, Toilets

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• Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Progress Of Society, Political, Lines

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.97, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Convenience is the American way.

  Cheech Marin

  Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

  Virginia Woolf

  Play, Support, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

  Anna Brackett

  Anxiety, Goes On, Care

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• The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

  William James

  God, Science, Law

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 20 (1902)

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• Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

  Roland Barthes

  Dream, Expression, Architecture

  Roland Barthes (1997). “The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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

  Ethel Smyth

  Civilization, Charm, Seclusion

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Abolition Of Slavery, Needs

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.100, Columbia University Press

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• My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

  Luis Barragan

  Emotional, House, Pieces

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• Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sorry, Stairs, Staircases

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". 2003.

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• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

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• 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.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Home, Hands, Faster

  "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

  Ted Nelson

  Decision, Fields, Computer

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Procrastination, Maturity

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

  Marie Corelli

  Depressing, Self, World

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pleasure, Fortuitous, Our Lives

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “The Vicar of Wakefield ... Nach Walter Scott's verbessertem Texte durchgängig accentuirt. Nebst ... Noten und einem vollständigen Wörterbuche ... Bearbeitet von Christian Heinrich Plessner ... Fünfte Auflage”, p.201

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• Each one writes history according to his convenience.

  Jose Rizal

  Writing

  Letter to Blumentritt from Leipzig, August 22, 1886.

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