Inconvenience Quotes - Page 8

• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Vision, Amendments

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Perspective

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• I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

  Charles Bukowski

  Travel, Thinking, Trouble

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• . . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

  Vincent de Paul

  Suffering, Charity, Kingdoms

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Power, Tolerance

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• Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

  William H. Stewart

  Wind, People, Hazards

  "The Insidious Health Risk You Need To Know About: Noise Pollution" by Carrie Sturrock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2017.

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• An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Government, Aristocracy

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• I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Book, Rivers, Ill Health

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Important, Privacy

  Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

  David Levithan

  Book, Waiting, Lines

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.79, Macmillan

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• The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Children, Kissing

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• I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

  Daniel Boone

  Danger, Midst

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books

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• The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Divorce, Moments, Given

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.606, Library of Alexandria

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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• It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Son, Opportunity

  Sam Houston (1941). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1828-1858”

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• Without running, I would have missed the joy of rain. What could be considered an inconvenience or a bummer to the inexperienced is actually a gift. Without running, I would miss a lot of things-like seeing cities in a certain way, or knowing certain people all the way to the core. I'm glad we don't experience life through glass, under cover, or from the sidelines. Good things take miles.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Rain, Glasses

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• I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyes water.

  Harlan Ellison

  Running, Jobs, Responsibility

  "Shatterday: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 1, 2014.

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• I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

  Harry Browne

  Gun, Law, Political

  Second Amendment rally in Arkansas, August 8, 2000.

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• We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Sorry, Revolution

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• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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