Inconvenience Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

  Abigail Disney

  Pride, Loss, Jars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Rain, Fall

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.298

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

  Samuel Johnson

  Theory

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.321

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• The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Law, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.378, Penguin

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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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• 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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• The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

  Victor Gollancz

  People, Want, Facts

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• I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Zero

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• A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.

  John Ray

  Running, Talking, Secret

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• Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

  Lisa Unger

  Heritage, Denial, My Family

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.410, Crown

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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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• 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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• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Wall, Years, Enemy

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• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  Dan Buettner

  Doors, Snow, Rakes

  "How To Live To 100 - Nine Healthy Habits" by Dan Buettner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2008.

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