Convenience Quotes - Page 3

• Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Commitment, Long

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• It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, War, Science

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

  George Iles

  Science, Fields, Common

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

  Althea Gibson

  Successful, Pedestal, Want

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• For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Design

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Speech, Hearing, Shouting

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

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• Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  World, Mathematician

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard Hudson (2010). “The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward”, p.41, Profile Books

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• If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, Ifs

  Source: inters.org

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• True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Made, Piety

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• I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

  George W. Bush

  Life, Mean, Science

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Two, Political, Television

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Country, Men, Law

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• 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.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Devices, Effects

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• I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

  Tom Jones

  Moving, House, One Day

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• When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

  David Blunkett

  Travel, Exercise, Giving

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• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  Fernando Flores

  Mean, Organization, Needs

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• We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Men, Fellow Man, May

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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• The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Progress, Rudeness

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.252

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• Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

  Haruki Murakami

  Should, Acts Of Love

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.384, Random House

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

  Pope Francis

  People, Young, Expediency

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Judging

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• 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.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Justice, Matter, Justification

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• The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Time, Cutting, Reality

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• In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Effort, Identity

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.50, Hachette UK

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