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  • The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. -- Carlo Goldoni
  • Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me. -- Lauren Conrad
  • The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. -- James Dyson
  • People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. -- Bob Dylan
  • My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. -- Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient. -- Lana Wachowski
  • It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. -- Henri Poincare
  • Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible. -- Lisa Gansky
  • To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -- Henri Poincare
  • One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. -- Harsha Bhogle
  • Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. -- Randolph Bourne
  • Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu. -- Eric Schlosser
  • Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient. -- Peter Singer
  • 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
  • I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances. -- Alexa Von Tobel
  • As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
  • Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice. -- George Papandreou
  • Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient. -- Patti Smith
  • I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car. -- Nelson Mandela
  • I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives. -- Paul Harding
  • Love is never convenient-and rarely painless -- Richard Paul Evans
  • We love things that are convenient. -- Jeff Bridges
  • A coherent system is a convenient lie. -- Marty Rubin
  • No law is sufficiently convenient to all. -- Livy
  • Love doesn't always come in convenient packages. -- Stephenie Meyer
  • Everything is so convenient in New York, -- Matthew Modine
  • Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying. -- Neal Shusterman
  • The future is a convenient place for dreams. -- Anatole France
  • Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable. -- Courtney M. Privett
  • Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right. -- Tony Dungy
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  • Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience. -- Haruki Murakami
  • The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time -- Erwin McManus
  • You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient. -- Harriet Evans
  • Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people. -- David Lloyd George
  • God knows there is never a convenient time to fast. -- Jentezen Franklin
  • I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people. -- Kevin Costner
  • Don't wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind! -- T. B. Joshua
  • It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel. -- Yasser Arafat
  • Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it. -- Francoise Mallet-Joris
  • The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. -- John Adams
  • For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. -- Jennifer Donnelly
  • Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. -- Langston Hughes
  • The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. -- Philip Caputo
  • The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient. -- Susan Rice
  • There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient. -- Judi Dench
  • Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. -- Thomas Paine
  • The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians. -- Ronald H. Nash
  • The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas. -- Brendon Burchard
  • We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable -- Wayne Visser
  • The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams -- Evan Esar
  • People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them. -- John Spence
  • War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. -- Philip Caputo
  • One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. -- Henri Poincare
  • It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind -- Isaac Asimov
  • Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences. -- Frederick Lenz
  • It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast. -- Loretta Lynch
  • My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened. -- Jeff Baena
  • It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location. -- David Wright
  • Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root. -- John Huston
  • I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient. -- Clive Owen
  • The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world. -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed. -- John Howard Griffin
  • If you can talk and it's convenient to talk, try to say things that edify. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. -- Catherine Deneuve
  • To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient. -- Eric Thomas
  • One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient. -- Henri Poincare
  • A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. -- Evan Esar
  • There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it. -- Arleigh Burke
  • I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. -- Dean Koontz
  • I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store. -- Tracy Chapman
  • Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • Develop your Intuition so that the changes in the years to come may be convenient for you. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them. -- Chris Campanioni
  • He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains. -- Elizabeth Chandler
  • I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient. -- Gotye
  • Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think -- Henri Poincare
  • It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. -- Ovid
  • Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one. -- Jared Kushner
  • Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers. -- Stewart Brand
  • If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. -- John Assaraf
  • The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. -- Joseph Conrad
  • I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that. -- Stacy Schiff
  • The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. -- Ronald Fisher
  • God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. -- Peter Straub
  • When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life. -- Clemence Poesy
  • I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor. -- Amanda Quick
  • If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient. -- Jasmine V
  • Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time. -- E. Nesbit
  • Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species." -- Alfred Marshall
  • Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by. -- Jonathan Sadowski
  • There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas. -- Samuel Butler
  • God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic. -- Charles Colson
  • Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable. -- Megan Smith
  • To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy. -- Epictetus
  • The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient. -- John R. Rice
  • Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. -- Alfred Marshall
  • Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication. -- J.M.G. Le Clézio
  • Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection. -- Henri Poincare
  • Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations. -- Tony Abbott
  • Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient. -- Barack Obama
  • Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living. -- Tite Kubo
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