Convenience Quotes

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.

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.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

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

What users want is convenience and results.

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.

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

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

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

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

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

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.

We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or 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.

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

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

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

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

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

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

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.

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

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

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.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

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

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

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

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

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

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

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

To me, speed is really about convenience.

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

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.