Quotes About Being Convenient

#1. Anton: "You're asking me?"
Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.

Orson Scott Card

#2. There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

Ad Reinhardt

#4. Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Susanne Bier

#5. will to create. Yes" - as if she expected disagreement - "the will, because it is an act of will. It's more than being called upon by some convenient artistic muse. It's making a decision to offer up a bit of one's essence to the judgement of others.

Elizabeth George

#6. As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.

Craig Stevens

#7. Maybe she'd just been a convenient lay. She was used to being a convenient lay, really.

Pepper Winters

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

Catherine Deneuve

#9. Her mother had called, and being a good daughter was as convenient an excuse as any. Anything to avoid the library.

Joseph Fink

#10. But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Lee Greenwood

#11. I feel as if my every move is being controlled by some kind of incredibly long arm that's reaching out from somewhere far away, and that my life has been nothing more than a convenient passageway for all these things moving through it.

Haruki Murakami

#12. The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.

David Lloyd

#13. Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

#14. There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

Elfriede Jelinek

#15. Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

#16. Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear
it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.

Judith Martin

#17. Believe it or not, the bigger problem isn't scaling, it's getting to the point where you have to scale. Without the first problem you won't have the second.

Jason Fried

#18. It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Cesar Chavez

#19. Brother," Artemis chided. "You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

Rick Riordan

#20. Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.

Kurt Eichenwald

#21. The "if I had time" lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born - without the luxury of time.

Julia Cameron

#22. I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

Virginia Woolf

#23. I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

Ann Leckie

#24. To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

Eric Thomas

#25. Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.

James E. Faust

#26. Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.

David Ehrenfeld

#27. Find out what you are, then do it on purpose

Dolly Parton

#28. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.

Robin S. Sharma