Drawbacks Quotes

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath.… — Truman Capote
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature… — Herbert Turnbull
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel… — Joseph Epstein
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt… — Max Euwe
I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be… — Thomas A. Edison
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but… — David Berg
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s -… — Thandie Newton
The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. — Ray Milland
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. — Mark Twain
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
San Francisco has only one drawbackâ€”â€˜tis hard to leave. — Rudyard Kipling
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it. — Nellie Melba
We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better… — Tal Ben-Shahar
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and… — Steve Israel
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites,… — Paul Feyerabend
One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as… — Terry Pratchett

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