#convenient

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#built #footwear #great #had #highways

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. ↗

— John Lawson

#follow #french #indians #interest #living

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#certain #convenient #heap #israel #people

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#get #inconvenient #leave #less #long

Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inconvenient #irksome #respect

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#actually #convenient #i #interested #limitation

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#aside #believed #come #different #different person

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

— Catherine Deneuve

#anonymous #being #being famous #completely #convenient

He 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

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#book #buried #chapter #christ #every