Inconvenient Quotes - Page 5

• It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

  Barack Obama

  Future, Vision, Important

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• Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

  Gail Carriger

  Self, Extra Time, Trying

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

  Gayle Forman

  Falling In Love, Fall, Seventeen

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• By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.

  E. B. White

  Cities, Comfort, Convenience

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• She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

  George Orwell

  Cliffs, Young, Solve

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• Aw, no. You’re taking us to that vegetarian place, aren’t you? It’s a coffee place. You can’t just automatically classify anything that isn’t a steak house as vegetarian. Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.

  Kevin Hearne

  Coffee, Yes I Can, Steak House

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “The Iron Druid Chronicles Starter Pack 3-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered”, p.333, Del Rey

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• I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fighting, Winning, Night

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Thirteen: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

  M. Scott Peck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Elude Us

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.77, Random House

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• Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

  Celia Fremlin

  Mean, Goes On, Infatuation

  Celia Fremlin (2017). “Uncle Paul”, p.172, Courier Dover Publications

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• You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

  Ellis Peters

  Truth, Half, Demand

  Ellis Peters (2015). “House of Green Turf”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.

  Virginia Graham

  Dark, Body, Rooms

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• The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Wages, Debt, Earth

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.150, Xist Publishing

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• It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Double Bass, Sculpture, Baggage

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1956). “Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”

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• By about a week before the big day, you will have received less than half of your invitation response cards. Panic sets in when it occurs to you that everyone invited will actually show up. You couldn't have made it easier for your guests. You have included a card that had boxes for 'will attend' or 'will not attend.' You included a pre-addressed, stamped envelope. How inconvenient could it be for them simply to check it off and drop it in in a mailbox? Very inconvenient. You, evil bride-to-be, are confronting two basic human fears. A terror of correspondence and the dread of decision-making.

  Mimi Pond

  Two, Evil, Decision

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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• Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, History, Might

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

  Mary Karr

  Doomed

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• I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

  Rainn Wilson

  Swans, Dresses, Saws

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• I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.

  Jesse Jackson, Jr.

  Want, Littles

  "Jesse Jackson Jr. going to prison; says he 'manned up'" by Dan Merica, Larry Lazo, Leslie Bentz, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2013.

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• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Church, Might

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

  Charles Grodin

  Hurt, Principles, Doe

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• If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Government, Use

  Alexander Hamilton (1999). “The Federalist Papers”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Real, Moving

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The Pentagon gives us one to three years left of normal life on this planet. Now you have Al Gores movie "An Inconvenient Truth", whom I find very optimistic, as he gives us ten years. But I don't know a single scientist on the planet who gives us ten years or anybody else who gives us that long. What the Pentagon talks about is the rapid changes in climate, making it impossible to live in certain areas. Exactly where those areas are, they don't know.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Optimistic, Thinking, Years

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

  Gore Vidal

  Matter, Contradiction, Evidence

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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