Matter Of Convenience Quotes

#1. I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.

Alice McDermott

#2. It's always a sad revelation when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that, for them, your friendship was always only a matter of convenience, a fallback, and they simply don't need you anymore. There

Tim Kreider

#3. As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

William Howard Taft

#4. Simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we can
never understand true reality, if two models both explain the
same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is a
matter of convenience.

Scott Adams

#5. The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. Enough , you hens!" Niobe exploded. "It's tentative!"
Lachesis snorted "As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!

Piers Anthony

#7. The man who holds the space is willing to risk relationships for the truth, because he knows without truth there is no true relationship. He knows that speaking the unspeakable sets everyone free, including himself. Are

Owen Marcus

#8. Privilege" is something else.
"Privilege" is a judgment.
"Privilege" is an opinion.
"Privilege" is an accusation.

Joan Didion

#9. One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Hugh Prather

#10. 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

#11. The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Willa Gibbs

#12. I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Steve Jobs

#13. I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Rufus Wainwright

#14. Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

Boris Vian

#15. 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

#16. It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

Oliver North

#17. The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

Dainin Katagiri