Quotes About Not Being Convenient

#1. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

Maya Angelou

#2. I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

Joe Biden

#3. 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

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

Eric Thomas

#5. There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

Scott McCallum

#6. 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

#7. I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.

Anthony Bourdain

#8. What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

Aeschylus

#9. Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Sylvia Plath

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

Virginia Woolf

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Azim Premji

#14. Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

Pearl Zhu

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Joseph Fink

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

Catherine Deneuve

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

Pepper Winters

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

Orson Scott Card

#23. 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

#24. God can turn your weaknesses into your strength.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. 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