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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 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 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 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 He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann 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 It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. Josh Billings 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 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 Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. Milton Berle Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. Larry Summers 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 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 The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. Charles de Montesquieu There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot |
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