Convenience Quotes - Page 5

• I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.

  Dave Grohl

  Technology, Emotional, Thinking

  "Preguntas y respuestas: Dave Grohl sobre el vinilo y el Record Store Day". Entrevista con Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. 15 de abril de 2015.

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• Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Intelligence, Tests, Sake

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). "Dones diferentes: comprender el tipo de personalidad", Davies-Black Publishing

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• Los placeres de la intimidad en la amistad dependen mucho más de las circunstancias externas de lo que la gente de mentalidad sentimental está dispuesta a conceder; y cuando la compañía constante deja de convenir a ambas partes, lo más probable es que se abandone a la primera oportunidad favorable.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Amistad, Fiesta, Oportunidad

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). "Autobiografía, Cartas y Restos Literarios de la Sra. Piozzi (Thrale)", p.100

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• Los antiguos carecían de muchas de las comodidades de la vida que han sido inventadas o mejoradas por el progreso de la industria; y la abundancia de vidrio y lino ha difundido más comodidades reales entre las naciones modernas de Europa que las que los senadores de Roma podían obtener de todos los refinamientos del lujo pomposo o sensual.

  Edward Gibbon

  Verdad, Lujo, Gafas

  Edward Gibbon (1846). "Historia de la decadencia y caída del Imperio Romano", p.106

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• There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.

  Chris Horner

  Jobs, Missing, Clerks

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• It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.

  Judith Martin

  Wall, People, Expectations

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Lying, Mean

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1997). “The Great Crash, 1929”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Book, Hands, Smell

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• El Islam nos está desafiando estos años. Hay cosas con las que no se debe mostrar tolerancia. Y cuando somos tolerantes, debemos saber si es por conveniencia o por convicción.

  Margarita II de Dinamarca

  Years, Tolerance, Islam

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• For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Views, Effort

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim: Conrad's Collections”, p.187, 谷月社

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• La cuestión fundamental para Estados Unidos es cómo puede cooperar para ayudar a satisfacer las necesidades básicas de los pueblos del hemisferio a pesar de los desacuerdos filosóficos que pueda tener con la naturaleza de determinados regímenes. Debe buscar formas pragmáticas de ayudar a la gente sin abrazar necesariamente a sus gobiernos. Debe reconocer que las relaciones diplomáticas son meras conveniencias prácticas y no medidas de juicio moral.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Philosophical, Government, People

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• Uno de los modos ordinarios por los cuales los tiranos logran sus propósitos sin resistencia, es desarmando al pueblo y convirtiendo en delito la tenencia de armas, y sustituyendo el recurso a la milicia por un ejército regular. Los amigos de un gobierno libre no pueden estar demasiado atentos para vencer la peligrosa tendencia de la mente pública a sacrificar, en aras de la mera conveniencia privada, este poderoso freno a los designios de los hombres ambiciosos.

  Historia de Joseph

  Poderoso, Ejército, Sacrificio

  Joseph Story (1842). "A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States", p.264

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• I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.

  Tyler Florence

  Dog, Thinking, Vegetables

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• Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Art, Giving

  Camille Paglia (1990). "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson", Vintage

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• The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

  Benjamin Graham

  Taken, Sound, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). "El inversor inteligente: Un libro de consejos prácticos"

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• Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

  San Francisco de Sales

  Lying, Grace, Suffering

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• [From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Character, Science, Two

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• Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates.

  Robert Higgs

  Rights, Leader, Political

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• L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

  Jay Leno

  Cities, Twenties, Stores

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• You see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it.

  Will Rogers

  America, House, Body

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.

  Nora Ephron

  Summer, Winter, Men

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• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Arrogance, Phrases

  Rachel Carson (2002). "Primavera silenciosa", p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

  Rose Macaulay

  Religious, Firsts, Groups

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• Cuando el hombre inventó la bicicleta alcanzó la cima de sus logros. Se trataba de una máquina de precisión y equilibrio para la comodidad del hombre. Y (a diferencia de los inventos posteriores para la comodidad del hombre) cuanto más la utilizaba, más en forma se ponía su cuerpo. Por una vez, un producto del cerebro humano era totalmente beneficioso para quien lo utilizaba y no causaba daño ni irritación a los demás. El progreso debería haberse detenido cuando el hombre inventó la bicicleta.

  Elizabeth West

  Filosofía, Curación, Hombres

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• Las reglas que propondré con respecto al secreto, y de las cuales no creo que sea seguro desviarse sin una larga y exacta deliberación, son: nunca solicitar el conocimiento de un secreto, no aceptar de buena gana, ni sin muchas limitaciones, tal confianza cuando se ofrece; cuando un secreto es admitido una vez, considerar la confianza como de una naturaleza muy alta, importante como la sociedad y sagrada como la verdad, y por lo tanto no ser violada por ninguna conveniencia incidental, o ligera apariencia de aptitud contraria.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Long, Secret

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.87

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