Inconvenience Quotes - Page 6

• The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Heart, Loss

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• Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time.... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.

  Ann Coulter

  Cells, Abortion, Research

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.195, Crown Forum

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• Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

  Haruki Murakami

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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• Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sometimes, Used, Security

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• Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

  David Foenkinos

  Beautiful, Born

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.201, A&C Black

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loss, Long, Age

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• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  H. G. Wells

  Fog, Gathering, Valleys

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.66, H. G. Wells

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• With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

  Joe Orton

  Madness, Passerby

  Joe Orton (2013). “Entertaining Mr Sloane”, p.9, A&C Black

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• Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

  William Carlos Williams

  Grief, Thinking, Weather

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

  Douglas Adams

  God, Finals, Messages

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• A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Perfect

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.134, Applewood Books

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• A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Support, Republic

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience.

  George Carlin

  Hate, Humorous, Schedules

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

  Richelle Mead

  Feet, Waiting, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

  Gottfried Reinhardt

  Motivational, Money, Riches

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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

  David Sedaris

  Weed, Squirrels, Looks

  "This Old House" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. July 9, 2007.

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• So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Impossible

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Differences, People, Needs

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• Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?" "Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed.

  David Eddings

  Humility, Thoughtful, Men

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

  Carrie Fisher

  Nice, Able, Opinion

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.

  Dan Wells

  Race, Age, Saving

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Touching, Quality

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

  Tom O'Connor

  Rain, Golf, Wind

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