#convenience

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #wrongly

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #only #rightly #wrongly

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#eat #else #everything #fire #got

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#heart #inconvenience #matter #own #physical

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority. ↗

— Titus Livius

#convenience #every #law #majority #meet

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#call #considered #got #i #inconvenience

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#chambers #class #europe #had #having

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#ago #caught #cocky #full #got