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Quotes About Convenience

This habit of using words which have no definite meaning is very convenient to writers, but very much the reverse for readers. [What is Darwinism (New York, 1874), p. 21]
~ Charles Hodge
There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Appalled by a culture that spent "too much time sitting on soft seats in motors, too much sitting in soft seats in movies,
~ Cheryl Strayed
I happen to believe America is dying of loneliness, and we as people have are into the stream of convenience and turn away from our deep lives.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives—those
~ Cheryl Strayed
happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives—those fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of what our friends in the Greed Business call the Free Market.
~ Cheryl Strayed
What was the point of having a dishwasher if you had to wash the stupid dishes first? When she grew up, she'd have a robot to do all the housework for her.
~ Chet Williamson
You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.
~ Harriet Evans
People don't fall in love with each other because it's convenient. They fall in love because they fall in love, and that's it.
~ Harriet Evans
Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.
~ Harry Shum Jr.
At a 2018 Apple shareholder meeting, Cook was optimistic about the future of Apple Pay and other contactless payment systems. "I'm hoping to be alive to see the elimination of money,
~ Leander Kahney
The driver's licenses weren't the only things that had RFID chips in them. These days almost everything did, from breakfast cereal boxes to key chains.
~ Lee Goldberg
B-R-B!" I screamed, which is faster to say than Be Right Back!
~ Lenore Look
There is something agreeable in feelings so easily worked on; not that I envy him their possession, nor would, for the world, have such myself; but they are very convenient when one wishes to influence the passions of another.
~ Jane Austen
Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed heer high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister: her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give away - she was only Anne.
~ Jane Austen
He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.
~ Jane Austen
put the lid back on the cookie jar. At this time of the day the traffic would be horrible getting to Dick's. And did I really want to shoot someone? No. So, what was the point in getting bullets? If I felt like I needed bullets tomorrow, I'd have Lula get some for me. They sold ammo at her hair salon.
~ Janet Evanovich
Burg Catholicism was a convenient religion. When the mind boggled, there was always God, waiting in the wings to take the rap. Connie handed me the check and plucked at a clump of mascara hanging at the end of her left eyelash. "I'm telling you, it's fucking hard to be classy," she said.
~ Janet Evanovich
It says here she held up a Frito-Lay truck?" "Apparently she was on that no-carbohydrate diet, got her period and snapped when she saw the truck parked in front of a convenience store. Just got whacked out at the thought of all those chips. She threatened the driver with a nail file, filled her car with bags of Fritos, and took off, leaving the driver standing there in front of his empty truck.
~ Janet Evanovich
I ran through the store gathering together some basic foods. Bread, cheese, Tastykakes, peanut butter, cereal, milk, Tastykakes, eggs, frozen pizza, Tastykakes, orange juice, apples, lunch meat, and Tastykakes.
~ Janet Evanovich
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
~ David Byrne
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
~ Damon Galgut
I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
~ Linus Torvalds