#convenient

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it. ↗

— Arleigh Burke

#fight #man #never #other #place

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

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

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#carving #conspiracy #convenient #into #kind

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#breathing #convenient #economical #ensure #health

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#inconvenient #man #poverty #us

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#conveniently #does #fit #format #into

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#away #concerned #convenient #could #e-mail

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient. ↗

— Susan Rice

#cannot #convenient #go #simply