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  • An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. -- Alice Walker
  • Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. -- Jane Austen
  • An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. -- Dan Buettner
  • If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. -- Jane Fonda
  • Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
  • 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. -- Robert Fulghum
  • 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. -- Ivor Novello
  • 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. -- Mary Ann Mobley
  • 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. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • 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. -- Martin Feldstein
  • Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted. -- Aravind Adiga
  • The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. -- Anthony Kennedy
  • Change is not made without inconvenience. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. -- Bruce Lee
  • Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. -- Richard Hooker
  • Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience. -- Pam Brown
  • Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us. -- Arthur C. Nielsen
  • So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced. -- Joseph Hume
  • One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. -- Robert Fulghum
  • I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences -- Vincent de Paul
  • That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
  • That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
  • The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone. -- Joseph Force Crater
  • 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. -- Mark Twain
  • I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
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  • I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames. -- Les Brown
  • 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. -- Harriet Martineau
  • 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
  • No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. -- Edward Livingston
  • Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up. -- Bruce Lee
  • I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything. -- George Will
  • Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience. -- Seth Shostak
  • An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. -- Confucius
  • Time steals away without any inconvenience. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. -- John Florio
  • Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience. -- Haruki Murakami
  • We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. -- Subcomandante Marcos
  • God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. -- Douglas Adams
  • Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. -- James M. Barrie
  • Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them. -- George Hearst
  • Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born. -- David Foenkinos
  • With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. -- Joe Orton
  • Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. -- Jack Vance
  • Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. -- Kittie Frantz
  • I'm not a cat. Not normally, anyway. This is but a temporary... inconvenience. -- Joshua Winning
  • And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience. -- Dave Barry
  • Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity. -- Robert Scoble
  • The Black Pit of Despair is temporarily closed for renovations. We apologize for any inconvenience. -- David C. Holley
  • I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence. -- Neve Campbell
  • Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time. -- Martina Navratilova
  • Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience. -- Lysa TerKeurst
  • Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you. -- Lisa Unger
  • A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets. -- John Ray
  • It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. -- William Cowper
  • Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. -- Samuel Johnson
  • . . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. -- Samuel Johnson
  • In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. -- Mark Twain
  • The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. -- David Horsey
  • 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
  • I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are. -- Charles Bukowski
  • The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 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
  • Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands. -- Bayley
  • It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. -- Edward Coke
  • Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. -- David Levithan
  • I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings. -- Luisa Valenzuela
  • One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience. -- Mark Batterson
  • 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
  • When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. -- Lorna Luft
  • 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
  • The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience. -- Bill Bryson
  • The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance. -- Francis Atterbury
  • 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
  • It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience. -- Aya Kito
  • Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 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
  • The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories. -- Jerry Vlasak
  • 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
  • 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
  • How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity. -- Alice Walker
  • A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else. -- Abigail Disney
  • Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be. -- Zig Ziglar
  • 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
  • In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. -- Harriet Martineau
  • 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
  • He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks. -- Joshua Reynolds
  • I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness. -- John Hodgman
  • [Donald Trump] tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers. -- Hillary Clinton
  • The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience. -- Victor Gollancz
  • Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree. -- Louis J. Camuti
  • Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight. -- Dave Barry
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