Top 100 Quotes About Inconvenient

#1. After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

Lawrence Bender

#2. Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.

Al Gore

#3. I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

Jonathan Evison

#4. If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]

George Orwell

#5. But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

Gayle Forman

#6. 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

#7. Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Lawrence Summers

#8. I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Mary Karr

#9. Ugh! Why can't you just read my mind already? It's so inconvenient to be a mental mute! ~Bella

Stephenie Meyer

#10. You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Ellis Peters

#11. It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

James Weldon Johnson

#12. I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Kristin Gore

#13. I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Bert Williams

#14. When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

Rodger Berman

#15. Being asked to help can sometimes be as difficult as asking for , because it can feel awkward, uncomfortable, aggravating and inconvenient. Yet we are called to open the door to inconvenience.

Cindee Snider Re

#16. After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.

Catherine Hardwicke

#17. Fourth, a telegram from brother Mycroft: 'Will visit at earliest possible convenience - great uproar in Whitehall. Mend quickly; your death would be most inconvenient at this time.

Lyndsay Faye

#18. Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient - people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled.

Piper Kerman

#19. A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.

Geraldine Brooks

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

Jon Niccum

#21. It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

Winston Churchill

#22. There is evil in the world. Things might be easier if there wasn't, if good and evil were just concepts men invented to justify themselves; we could ignore them, then. Sadly, good and evil are both very real, and very inconvenient.

Seanan McGuire

#23. 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

#24. All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.

Neal Stephenson

#25. The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation
it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

Ian McEwan

#26. It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay.

Kelley Armstrong

#28. You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

Jesse Ventura

#29. We have to dig and experiment and figure out who the hell we are from birth to death, which is super inconvenient, right?

Felicia Day

#30. A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Arnold Bennett

#31. For devotees of doctrine tended to fall in love with their own righteousness, ignoring inconvenient facts.

Jon Meacham

#32. When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

Albert Mohler

#33. 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

#34. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardner

#35. 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

#36. The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#37. It's a coffee place. You can't just automatically classify anything that isn't a steak house as vegetarian.
Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert heir own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient fast as mere opinions.

Kevin Hearne

#38. President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Mitt Romney

#39. Inconvenient truth always hurts but its there and there is no escaping

Sipendr

#40. Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

Mary E. Pearson

#41. True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

Kiera Cass

#42. His little black-and-white cat with the black-and-white wings would fly through the rooms sometimes, but most often it would be discovered sleeping somewhere where it was most inconvenient for it to sleep. And

Michael Moorcock

#43. So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Lorrie Moore

#44. Maybe I just have everything backwards. Maybe it's a problem of perspective. In this Post-Modern Age perhaps it is the digital experiences we ought to cheer as "genuine " and not those troublesome and inconvenient analog ones.
Looking at it all fucking backwards.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#45. The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#46. Well, I'm sorry my telling the truth about the stupid things you do is inconvenient for you,

John Scalzi

#47. Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#48. The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Charles De Montesquieu

#49. Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort ... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

Peter Vidmar

#50. Sometime it very inconvenient to tell the truth.

Cynthia Kadohata

#51. If you are able to say "no" when it is convenient and inconvenient, and you can control your flesh and die to yourself for the sake of the will of God, then you are really already a great person.

Sunday Adelaja

#52. Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward.

Stephenie Meyer

#53. Women? Women are like ... thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

Brandon Sanderson

#54. Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

Eric Alterman

#55. As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

Shannon Hale

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

Moms Mabley

#57. I hope I haven't hurt your feelings,' he said.
'I don't have feelings, at least not the inconvenient ones.

Sarah Beth Durst

#58. Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

Amelia Earhart

#59. Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.

Gregory Maguire

#60. Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,

David Weber

#61. How very inconvenient his little talent could be-when it wasn't saving my life.

Stephanie Meyer

#62. It is incredible what a pronounced hero can get away with and what can be accredited to him.
There were no inconvenient questions asked of Robin because everyone preferred to believe that heroes defeat villains and that there were distinguishable traits that could easily tell the two apart.

Arianna Alexsandra Collins

#63. It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

Barack Obama

#64. That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

Jeffery Deaver

#65. Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

Lawrence Bender

#66. He'd gotten this far on bravado and the time honored tradition of ignoring any inconvenient nagging thoughts, but it wasn't working so well now.

Michael Langlois

#67. Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

Millicent Fawcett

#68. Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.

Dan Brown

#69. Hell, I'd keep her in Bubble Wrap if it weren't so damn creepy and also inconvenient, considering I had a terrible habit of obsessively popping the damn things until not a single bubble was left.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#70. At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

Gary Hamel

#71. Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.

Mark Mustian

#72. The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Gail Carriger

#73. Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

Cathryn Louis

#74. Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.

Carol Edgarian

#75. Admiration provides no saving grace for the inconvenient.

A.J. Darkholme

#76. The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.

Noam Chomsky

#77. Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

Lawrence Bender

#78. In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Gore Vidal

#79. It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

Lewis Carroll

#80. Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there,

Cody McFadyen

#81. 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

#82. It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Josh Billings

#83. When innocent and
virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions,
they lived with them in the same huts. But having soon become
evil, they grew weary of these inconvenient spectators and
relegated them to magnificent temples.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#84. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Bertrand Russell

#85. Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#86. But the human mind has a talent for ignoring what is inconvenient for it to notice. A built-in delete key to soften the blows of regret or guilt.

Toni Jordan

#87. The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Max Weber

#88. You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

Michael Crichton

#89. The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction.

Nick Bilton

#90. His response right now wouldn't win his brother the support he needs as a new king-and it just might push his father to cut his tongue after all. And groveling at Emma's feet without a tongue would be inconvenient.

Anna Banks

#91. Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.

Kirsten Beyer

#92. Why is it so exhausting to uphold someone's heavy, inconvenient burden? Why are we spent from shouldering someone's grief or being an armor bearer? Why is it that lifting someone out of his or her rubble leaves us breathless? Because we are the body of Christ, broken and poured out, just as He was.

Jen Hatmaker

#93. Truth will be always inconvenient and uncomfortable

Kimberly Loskov

#94. I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.

Jesse Jackson Jr.

#95. That's not real good goddamn timing." "Artery stenosis is famously inconvenient," Bilbo said. "It never calls in advance. Just drops in to party whenever it feels like it.

Joe Hill

#96. A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Richard Schickel

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

Pema Chodron

#98. He was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.

Orson Scott Card

#99. Trust the word of a man who thinks beheading is a flesh wound?"
"I didn't say it wouldn't have been inconvenient."
"Death is inconvenient?"
"Being dismembered is inconvenient. I don't know about death.

Devon Monk

#100. From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Teresa Of Avila

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