Inconvenient Quotes - Page 2

• Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

  Terry Bozzio

  Fame, Money And Fame

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.644, Penguin UK

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• The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Reason, Highways

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• I don't want to be without God's blessings. If it's inconvenient, then it's just inconvenient. If somebody don't like it, then somebody just don't like it. That is part of me. That's who I am.

  Charlie Daniels

  Blessing, Who I Am, Want

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  Conan O'Brien

  Unhappy, Expansion, Groups

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• The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Home, Heart, America

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• The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Ideas, Voice, House

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.27, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

  Joseph Boyden

  Historical, Wish, Narrative

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

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• It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

  Agatha Christie

  Love You, People, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1952). “A Daughter's a Daughter”

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• Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Children, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.43, Penguin

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• We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Technology, Thinking

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• A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Perfect, Messy, Situation

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

  Sydney Smith

  Men, Poverty, Poor

  In 'Sidney Smith: His Wit and Wisdom' (1900) p. 89 Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. On William Whewell, in Isaac Todhunter 'William Whewell' (1876) vol. 1, p. 410

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• I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  Bert Williams

  Men, America, Able

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• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.'  How do I know what I might be if I were a white man?  I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day.  I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week.  There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am.  In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man.  But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  Bert Williams

  Song, Men, White Man

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• Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

  Amelia Earhart

  Way, Crisis, Humans

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• Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

  Peter Kingsley

  World, Upside Down, Turns

  Peter Kingsley (2003). “Reality”, The Golden Sufi Center

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• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  Victor Papanek

  Country, Thinking, People

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• From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Heaven, Looks

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• It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

  Winston Churchill

  Would Be, Done, Ifs

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• "It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."

  L. Frank Baum

  Sleep, Thinking, Brain

  L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

  Harold MacMillan

  Mean, Government, Genius

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• I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Perfect, Pro Life

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Our Society, Manipulation

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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