Inconvenient Quotes

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

History, Truth, Greatest

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

Self, Difficult

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

Poverty, Disgrace, Terribly

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

Honor, Dangerous, Himself

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
Charles de Montesquieu

Great, Reason, Romans

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

May, High, Cause

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

Honor, Dangerous, Himself

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

True, Ignore, Before

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
Peter O'Toole

Time, Book, Him

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith

Poverty, Disgrace

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
Norbert Wiener

Time, Long, May

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
Eric Ries

Faith, Failure, Help

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Dick Francis

Life, Ignore, Simply

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
Paul Davies

Nature, Truth, Universe

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

Government, Often, Point

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Saffron Burrows

Truth, Giving, Talk

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

Time, Waiting, Husband

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

Start, Idea, Economics

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

Great, Become, Often

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

Person, Different, Study

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

America, Able, Often

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