Convenient Quotes

• My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Principle
  • Convenient

• Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Convenient
  • Watson
  • Inconvenient

• We've discussed that, we are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient but no date has yet been fixed.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Discussion
  • Visit
  • Convenient

• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • E-mail
  • Telephone
  • Convenient

• There are some people who would have it politically convenient to have a recession because that means they would have a political advantage. We are not going to let that happen, ... By moving that tax cut early and having it in time to kick this economy up and get it going, we are not going to let that happen.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Facts
  • Differences
  • Delivery

• I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • World
  • Literature
  • Made

• ...as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Age
  • Alive
  • Bearble

• It's convenient to call it a minivan because of those sliding doors. But the U.S. is the only market in the world in which vans carry a negative stigma as 'soccer mom' vehicles, so we don't want it known as a minivan here.

  

  Jeremy Barnes A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  • Market
  • Known
  • Call

• How convenient for these miscreant informants and the government to suddenly claim years later, when he was about to get out of prison, that he was still in the life, which fell into what is known as a predicate-act time frame,

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Convenient
  • Informants
  • Miscreant

• He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Rain
  • Wells
  • Convenient

• Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Hurt
  • Needs
  • Promise

• As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Musicians
  • Communicate
  • Convenient

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

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Like
  • Anonymous
  • Being Famous

• We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable

  

  Wayne Visser
  • Living
  • Fashionable
  • Sustainable

• Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Time
  • Fiction
  • Convenient

• For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Mad
  • Convenient

• It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!

  

  Katherine Stinson
  • Driving
  • Airplane
  • Automobile

• If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Things
  • Comfortable
  • Convenient

• It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Happy
  • Reason
  • Mountain-top

• No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Reach
  • Task
  • Convenient

• What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.

  

  Michael Moss
  • People
  • Research
  • Conscious

• It has to be convenient. You have to be able to bank with me anytime.

  

  Ana Patricia Botin
  • Able
  • Bank
  • Convenient

• For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

  

  William Pfaff
  • World
  • Civilization
  • Assuming

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