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Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. -- Jonathan Nolan
Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day. -- Thaddeus Golas
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. -- W. Eugene Smith
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. -- John Lawson
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. -- Eric S. Raymond
The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied. -- August Krogh
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student. -- Ira Sachs
I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible. -- Peter Riegert
The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase. -- Steven Weber
President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda. -- Tom Rice
By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area. -- Barton Seaver
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. -- Stephen F. Lynch
In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.' -- Annie Jacobsen
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. -- Will Wright
If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently. -- Timothy Ferriss
I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am. -- Alan Ball
I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated for me in Los Angeles on KABC's Channel Seven 3:30 movie. Apes enslaving humans! Mutants with boils and an atom bomb! Ape riots in Century City! They killed baby Caesar's parents! -- Greg van Eekhout
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need. -- Francis Spufford
I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction. -- Chris Carter
One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling. -- Barry Humphries
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. -- Michel de Montaigne
Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. -- Matei Calinescu
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. -- Robin Morgan
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. -- Bram Stoker
Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential. -- Wendy Wasserstein
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. -- John Armstrong
You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections. -- Matthew Donnelly
In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger'... -- Helmut Lachenmann
The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind. -- Johan Huizinga
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me. -- Evelyn Waugh
Enough scraps and rocks and countries are conveniently distributed across the face of the earth so that the sun still always shines on something British -- Pamela Marsh
The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States. -- Dave Barry
Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week. -- Hugh Hewitt
Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine." -- Rachel Higginson
Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff. -- Chris Cleave
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste. -- Jonathan Swift
Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently. -- Walter J. Phillips
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man. -- Anna Quindlen
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood. -- Camille Paglia
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I look around for a conveniently loaded pistol.Sadly, there doesn't seem to be one available, so I have no choice but to answer the question. - Queen of Babble Gets Hitched -- Meg Cabot
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper. -- Ted Nelson
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom. -- Elsa Maxwell

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