Quotes of Convenient - somelinesforyou

“ A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. ”

- George Washington

“ I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl. ”

- Alicia Silverstone

“ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ”

- Charles W. Eliot

“ One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ”

- Robert Pirsig

“ You know, I'm not one of these people that just because I've done all that I now become Superman. You can't touch me. You know, you can touch me. I'm very, unfortunately, very reachable. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. ”

- Alan Paton

“ We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland. ”

- Maureen Reagan

“ Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. ”

- John Gay

“ Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. ”

- Dean McLaughlin

“ 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. ”

- John Selden

“ REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Endless opportunity is accessible to every man and woman alive. A notebook and a sharpened pencil. ”

- Greg Evans

“ Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person. ”

- Bill Bryson

“ The simple fact is that we needed something as simple and basic as buses delivered in a timely fashion from FEMA in order to save lives. They didn't do that. ”

- Kathleen Blanco

“ Accessible design is good design. ”

- Steve Ballmer

“ Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. ”

- Hesiod

“ Satire that is seasonable and just, is often more effectual than law or gospel. ”

- H. W. Shaw

“ From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky. - John Keble. ”

- John Keble

“ Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. ”

- Larry Page

“ The plight of the children on board this ship serves as a timely reminder that slavery and bondage are still realities in the world. ”

- Brian Wilson

“ I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ”

- Robert Benchley

“ I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know? ”

- Jon Voight

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

- Catherine Deneuve

“ The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you. ”

- Charles Ives
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