Inconvenient Quotes - Page 6

• As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Long, Secret, Cad

  1898 Sir George Crofts. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 3.

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• ... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.10, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

  Moms Mabley

  Damn, Disgrace, Ifs

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• We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

  Mary Pipher

  Military, Hero, Dull

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• From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

  Eduardo Galeano

  Views, Growth, Criminals

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• The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

  Chris Sanders

  Views, Use, Agendas

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• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  William Farr

  Names, Perfect, Attention

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• The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

  Sarah Brady

  Husband, Gun, Waiting

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• An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

  Jon Niccum

  Holocaust, Argument, Truth Is

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• There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.

  Eben Moglen

  Government, Way, Firsts

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• Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

  Dick Francis

  Law, Way, Crime

  Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.104, Penguin

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• You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

  Victoria Moran

  Giving Up, Believe, People

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• So when somebody asks me to make a decision about a situation, I don't offer a solution, I ask a question: What are our options? Give me the good, give me the bad, give me the pretty, give me the ugly, give me the impossible, give me the possible, give me the convenient, give me the inconvenient. Give me the options. All I want are options. And once I have all the options before me, then I comfortably and confidently make my decision.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Decision, Ugly

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• I could stay depressed about my bad memory, but that's a negative way to live. Let's look on the bright side and list the advantages of having a bad memory.
  (1) You can reread a book and see a movie over and over and enjoy it as much as the first time.
  (2) If you make an inconvenient promise, you can pretend that you forgot about it and still be forgiven.
  (3) This is the most important thing: you can keep coming up with ideas without being held back by convictions or the past.

  Hirohiko Araki

  Memories, Book, Past

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• Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do

  Zach Braff

  Kids, Important, Want

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• Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

  James A. Baldwin

  White, Forever, Black

  "The Price of the Ticket". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1985.

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• The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.

  Al Gore

  Responsibility, Community, Political

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• No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

  George Washington

  Taxation, Taxes, Tax Day

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.9

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• And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Justice, Police

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.163, Da Capo Press

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• The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Past, Unexpected

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Business, Voice, People

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• Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Should Have, Desire

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.75, Regent College Publishing

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• If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Follow Your Heart, Ifs

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.123, Shambhala Publications

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• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Light, Heaven

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• Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 23, 2016

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