Convenient Quotes - Page 5

• Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

  Elif Batuman

  Love Is, Littles, Way

  Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.79, Granta Books

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• The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

  Erwin McManus

  Important, Moments, Important Moments

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them.

  James Madison

  Country, Past, Errors

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.162

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• [I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

  James Madison

  Law, Void, Legislature

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in

  Arun Sarin

  Business, Believe, Half

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• No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Grateful, People, Important

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.10, Random House

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• Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Jewels, Goal, Perfection

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• Everything is so convenient in New York.

  Matthew Modine

  New York

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• Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

  Eddie Kaye Thomas

  Happy, Halloween, Party

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• But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

  Yaron Brook

  Government, Political, Wish

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• I believe that everyone has expertise to sell and that people want to purchase that knowledge in a convenient way. Just as Airbnb made people realize that an extra room in their home or apartment can be a source of income, the new Learning Annex provides a platform for people to monetize their knowledge. It’s an exciting time for online adult education and our new platform is the way to unify an otherwise fragmented market.

  Bill Zanker

  Believe, Home, People

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• God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

  Peter Straub

  Views, Evil, Fiction

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.249, Penguin

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• It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, People, Accusation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.

  John Spence

  Thinking, People, Easy

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• The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Political, Purpose

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Hunting, Views

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• The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.

  Francis Galton

  Men, Two, Personality

  Francis Galton (1874). “English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture”, p.12

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• It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

  Judi Dench

  Truth, Real, Reality

  "Fictional character: Barbara Covett". "Notes on a Scandal", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  Tom Hanks

  Phones, Mail, Introvert

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• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Suffering, Would Be

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• We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

  T. S. Eliot

  Relationship, Memories, People

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicidal, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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• The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

  Carlo Goldoni

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Blushing

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• I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

  Mark Twain

  Cousin, Grandmother, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

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