Drawbacks Quotes
69 quotes by 66 authors
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
— Arnold Bennett
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.
— Ray Milland
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
— Rudyard Kipling
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One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
— Nellie Melba
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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