Inconvenient Quotes - Page 3

• I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Heart, Giving, Might

  Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.19, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Sensual, Elation

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Habit, Kitten

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Holmes, Convenient, Watson

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.102, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beach, Hair, Black

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.336, Delacorte Press

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• The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

  Gail Carriger

  Mass, Ill, Soulless

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• You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Parenting, Earth

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• Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.

  Truman Capote

  Independent, Names, Rivers

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• Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Keep Trying, Bastille

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'�d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black

  Stephenie Meyer

  Awkward, Black, Nudity

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• I think one of the most important differences between us is that you are excellent at living in a way that is commensurate with your values, whereas I am not. For instance, I didn’t recycle until I watched An Inconvenient Truth and I’m still sort of iffy on it. And also, I didn’t vote in 2000, even though I could have voted in Florida *hits self on head repeatedly* Ahh George Bush! It’s all my fault! God! So stupid! *sigh* Let’s change the subject. Also, we have vastly different happy dances.

  John Green

  Stupid, Thinking, Florida

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

  Milton Berle

  Poverty, Disgrace

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• 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

  Funny, High Heels, Suffering

  The Title (1918) act 1

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Yield, Comfort

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• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Acceptance, Discovery

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• You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Love You, Mean

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• 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

  Wings, President, Facts

  "Think Again: Conservatives Prefer Reagan Fantasies to Reality (And So Did Reagan)" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

  P. C. Cast

  Dying, Sake, Aphrodite

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• 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, Thinking, Years

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• Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

  Guy P. Harrison

  Important, Answers, Today

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• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

  Max Weber

  Teacher, Party, Mean

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.147, Routledge

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• Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Issues, Looks

  "Yes, the universe looks like a fix. But that doesn't mean that a god fixed it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Sex, Erotic

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.195, Penguin

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• Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  May, Sin, Natural

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