Inconvenience Quotes - Page 4

• The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Rights, Evil

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• The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

  Mark Twain

  Writing

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.471, Univ of California Press

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• The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Children, Animal, Suffering

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• I feel blessed to be able to do these events. As I travel around, I'm fully cognizant that there are a lot of people out there who are sportscasters or who want to be sportscasters who would kill to do the Maui Invitational or the Ohio State-Michigan game. So if you have to endure some inconveniences along the way, that's fine by me.

  Sean McDonough

  Blessed, Ohio State, Games

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• Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  School, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

  Francis Bacon

  Horse, Mean, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361

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• I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Cancer, Normal, Proof

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• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

  Francis Bacon

  Execution, Blind, Danger

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• Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Riches, Poverty

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• So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Independent, Peculiar

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.251, VM eBooks

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• The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Soul, Risk

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• Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Taken, Cost, Welcome

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• The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Book, Digital, Made

  "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.

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• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Worry, Television

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupidity, Size

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• Time steals away without any inconvenience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Stealing

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Selected Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Judging, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.237

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• The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Land, America

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• A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

  Aya Kito

  Heart, Humans, Persons

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• I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literature, Burden

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

  Kevin Maney

  Cds, Enough, Fidelity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

  Neve Campbell

  Sorry, Perfect, Perception

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• Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Texas

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

  Diana Vreeland

  Rain, Cleansing, Calming

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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