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Quotes About Convenience

Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
There's always a Starbucks around.
~ Michael Connelly
The Cleese Theory of Convenience. I think, roughly précised, it means that everyone will do only what's most convenient for them – and if you want things done your way you must not appear too agreeable or easy to please, or you will be the victim of other people's desire for convenience.
~ Michael Palin
Is there any more futile, soul-irradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner?
~ Michael Pollan
Mare parte din atractivitatea lan?ului trofic industrial ?ine de facilitatea lui: le ofer? oamenilor ocupa?i un mod de a delega altora g?titul (?i conservarea alimentelor).
~ Michael Pollan
These days 19 percent of American meals are eaten in the car.
~ Michael Pollan
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
~ Eric Schlosser
Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy.
~ Walt Mossberg
The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
~ John Battelle
As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.
~ Nyjah Huston
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
~ Hope Davis
I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.
~ James Patterson
I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
~ Melanie Fiona
People are so addicted to convenience that they have become trapped in a vicious circle: The more labor-saving appliances they acquire, the harder they need to work; the harder they work, the more labor-saving appliances they feel they need to acquire.
~ Bill Bryson
Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.
~ Bill Bryson
For scientific convenience, the atmosphere is divided into four unequal layers: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere (now often called the thermosphere).
~ Bill Bryson
Electric jugs for all.
~ Bill Bryson
New Rule: You don't have to put the cap back on the bottled water after every sip. It's water, not a genie.
~ Bill Maher
Cohn had witnessed this for over a year—denial when needed or useful or more convenient. "He's a professional liar," Cohn told an associate.
~ Bob Woodward
Let's order cheap Chinese and eat it out of the box with chopsticks." "Let's order good Chinese and do that.
~ Sylvia Day
Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy .
~ Julius Evola
Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks.
~ Julius Rosenwald
Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.
~ K.P. Yohannan
Not one was willing to break out of that velvet cage of comfort and convenience to begin a radical lifestyle lived from an inner reality
~ K.P. Yohannan