Convenience Quotes - Page 8

• I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Reading, Humor

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• It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, Anxiety, Soul

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• The Carmen Electra cards give me another way to connect with my fans while providing them the ability to enjoy the convenience of shopping or paying bills with ease -- online and offline, ... Payment Data Systems is the perfect partner for me because of the capabilities the company already has in place.

  Carmen Electra

  Data, Shopping, Giving

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfish, Party, Divorce

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• The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

  Tony Abbott

  Mother, Practice, Abortion

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• Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Beauty, Dream, Humanity

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

  David Hume

  Political, Doubt, Add

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.284

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• In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired firms that collectively employ more than 2,500 people. But we're just scratching the surface in terms of the potential to build Revolution into a new kind of company that gives consumers more choice, control and convenience in the important aspects of their lives.

  Steve Case

  Reality, Years, People

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• As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

  William Howard Taft

  Iron, People, Matter

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Ease, Today

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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

  Luc de Clapiers

  Light, Firsts, Morality

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it  It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

  Neil Young

  Art, Data, Mp3

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• The difference between me and many young people is, I don't carry music with me. I like to think. I don't use any modern convenience to be talking to other people, because I like my time to think. I go to the garden in the morning, and this time, I'm thinking ideas, I'm not drawing, I'm thinking.

  Sergio Aragones

  Morning, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds. But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values.

  Laura Riding

  Religious, Reality, Perfection

  "Poetic Drama". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.

  Criss Angel

  Growing Up, People, Over You

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Bears

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

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• The customer moved on long before the industry reacted to what she wanted. She doesn't want to buy things four months in advance, she wants to buy something today and wear it tomorrow. She cares less about seasons and collections and really what she's looking for is price, quality, and convenience.

  Tamara Mellon

  Long, Quality, Moved On

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Emotional, Impact

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.

  Kevin Maney

  Opportunity, America, Choices

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Remember, don't waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.

  Doc Childre

  Spiritual, Heart, Practice

  Doc Lew Childre (1992). “The how to book of teen self discovery: helping teens find balance, security & esteem”, HeartMath

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• Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Band, Type, Dance Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.

  Laura Riding

  Communication, Self, Understanding

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Thinking, Car

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

  Tom Coburn

  Issues, Brain, Favors

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

  William Golding

  Long, Fundamentals, Paper

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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