Inconvenience Quotes

The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones. (Joseph Joubert)
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. View quote
Alice Walker
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. View quote
Jane Austen
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Martin Feldstein
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. View quote
Morrissey
The science of economics hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. View quote
H. G. Wells
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. View quote
Richard Hooker
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)
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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. View quote
Ivor Novello
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists. View quote
Thomas Malthus
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. View quote
Bruce Lee
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience. View quote
Bill Bryson
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. View quote
Robert Fulghum
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. View quote
Joe Orton
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. That it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty. (David Hume)
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. View quote
David Levithan
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. View quote
Lorna Luft
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. View quote
Mary Ann Mobley