Convenient Quotes

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard

Truth, May, Easy

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

Drunk, Getting, Excuse

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin Disraeli

Him, Remember, Nobody

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Mary Todd Lincoln

Evil, Genius, Season

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
Kevin Costner

We love things that are convenient.
Jeff Bridges

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
Catherine Deneuve

Famous, Anonymous

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

Away, Far, Concerned

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.
Ron Fournier

Down, Trouble, Somebody

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

Find, Suffering, Whatever

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
Clive Owen

Film, Shot, Honestly

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.
Lauren Conrad

Shopping, Online

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke

State, Actually, Believing

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
James Dyson

Lazy, Approach, Size

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Henri Poincare

Everything, Doubt, Two

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.
Russell Brand

Gay, Almost, Stuff

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig

True, Cannot, Another

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
Arthur Middleton

Himself, Church, Christ

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Henri Poincare

Words, Geometry, Adopted

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

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
Ronald Fisher

Rather, Analysis, Arithmetic

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Nothing, Virtue, Feminine

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh

Truth, Beautiful, Young

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
Michael Pollan

Power, Society, Everything

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander

Experience, Words, Two

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
Susan Rice

Alone, Cannot, Simply

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

Everything, Happen, Problem

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
William Bligh

Strong, Place, Makes

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