#convenient

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#considered #conveniently #destiny #enough #ever

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. ↗

— Milton Berle

#inconvenient #poverty #terribly

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#does #inconvenient #moral #precept #something

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#convenient #creatures #down #follow #messy

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

#evil #genius #me #more #procrastination

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#dangerous #himself #holds #honor #ideal

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreement #alleviate #america #central #consequences

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#genus #land #leading #name #producer