Inconvenience Quotes - Page 2

• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  Steven Morrissey

  Communication, People, Music Business

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

  Lorna Luft

  Opportunity, Tonight, Los Angeles

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• I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Cocky, Two, Years

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• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

  Ivor Novello

  Real, Light, Long

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• Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

  David Carradine

  Scare, Would Be, Way

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• For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wall, Stress, Stupid

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• When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Water, Soul

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• Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

  Aravind Adiga

  Progress

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.97, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

  Chris Lynch

  Novelists, Way, Sometimes

  Chris Lynch (2011). “Angry Young Man”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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• Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Stones, Outcomes

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Advice, Debt, Calamity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.110

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• Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

  Alice Walker

  Writing, Violence, Sin

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.108, Rutgers University Press

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• Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

  Pam Brown

  Love, Cat, Animal

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• Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

  Samuel Johnson

  Loss, Advantage, Politeness

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.239

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• Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

  Martin Feldstein

  Years, Cost, Pay

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• Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

  Jack Vance

  Inspirational, Motivational, Risk

  "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 9), 1969.

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• It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

  Christine Caine

  Injustice, Willing, Interrupted

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jun 13, 2014

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• It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Feelings, Thrill

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• If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

  Arthur Japin

  Pain, Forever, Tolerance

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• I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

  Epicurus

  Sake, Pleasure, Spit

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• Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

  James M. Barrie

  Growing Up, Pimples, Grew Up

  "Fictional character: Captain Hook". "Peter Pan", 2003.

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• Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Suffering, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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