#convenient

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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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

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

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

— Susan Rice

#cannot #convenient #go #simply

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#cause #champagne #heels #high #high heels

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#admired #assisted #been #delivery #documentary

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#convenient #people #repent #seldom #then

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

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

— Milton Berle

#inconvenient #poverty #terribly