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There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience. -- John D. Barrow
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. -- Luis Barragan
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. -- Hermann Hesse
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. -- Mitch Hedberg
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. -- Coretta Scott King
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. -- Nadine Gordimer
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
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
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
Convenience is the American way. -- Cheech Marin
Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. -- Mitch Hedberg
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. Itâ??s a disease. -- Cameron Diaz
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. -- William Cowper
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. -- Murray Kempton
Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience! -- Tommy Cooper
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. -- Edward Bond
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
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
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority. -- Livy
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] -- Winston Churchill
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
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. -- Gary L. Francione
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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
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
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
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
Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel. -- Jennifer Egan
What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life. -- Joseph Epstein
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.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency. -- Pope Francis
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. -- Tadao Ando
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
Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks. -- Lucy Powell
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. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable. -- Susan Orlean
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility. -- Stewart Udall
We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us. -- Anthony Bourdain
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
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route. -- Rose George
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world. -- Kristina McMorris
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it. -- Howard Schultz
We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences. -- Tom Rath
I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose. -- Alan Dershowitz
Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up. -- Lynn Jurich
Freedom, security, convenience - choose two -- Dan Geer
Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience. -- Bill Johnson
What users want is convenience and results. -- Jef Raskin
To me, speed is really about convenience. -- Marissa Mayer
Public offices were not made for private convenience. -- Thomas Jefferson
Each one writes history according to his convenience. -- Jose Rizal
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Nature doesn't give a damn for convenience, and never has. -- Lara Adrian
Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. -- Edward Kennedy
Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future. -- Walt Kelly
This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. -- Barbara Kingsolver
People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience. -- Sheila Watt-Cloutier
My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen. -- Emo Philips
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open. -- Leza Lowitz
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. -- Haruki Murakami
I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that. -- Adhir Kalyan
We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility. -- Jane Kirkpatrick
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience. -- Baruch Spinoza
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. -- Roland Barthes
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. -- Oliver Goldsmith
And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction, -- Margrethe II of Denmark
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . -- Sarah Siddons
In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience. -- Paul Keating
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. -- Henry David Thoreau
For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of. -- Myrtle Reed
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. -- Richard Dawkins
Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor -- A.O. Storm
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. -- George Washington
I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction. -- Rick Perry
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. -- Cormac McCarthy
Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort. -- Dana Gould
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame. -- Henry David Thoreau
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures -- John Warren Kindt
Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store. -- Bradley Denton
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. -- Victoria Moran
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored. -- Benjamin Graham
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain. -- John C. Maxwell
Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience. -- Patrice Kindl
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. -- Jay Leno
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. -- Thomas Tredgold
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. -- Virginia Woolf
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.' -- Martin Winterkorn
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
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. -- Sylvia Porter
You want me to be truthful.. for your convenience.. but in turn.. you consider to be mendacious for your own convenience.. !! Gr8..!! -- Abhijeet Sawant
Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning." His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required. -- Sylvia Day
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. -- Samuel Johnson
I dont partake in assembly-line convenience. I dont say that killing things is bad while I hire people to kill things for me. -- Ted Nugent
Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. -- Rob Pike
What I mean to say is that in a highly exceptional reality [...] the non-exceptional can, for convenience sake, be written off as paradoxically exceptional. -- Haruki Murakami
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device. -- Bill Gates
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. -- Che Guevara
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
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
It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl. -- W. C. Fields
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer. -- Saint Augustine
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical. -- Serj Tankian
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

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