Inconvenient Quotes
133 Inconvenient quotes by 120 unique authors
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All life-changing love is inconvenient.
— Timothy Keller
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Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the…
— Jonah Goldberg
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The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex…
— Iris Murdoch
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Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature…
— Paul Davies
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their…
— Max Weber
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we…
— M. Scott Peck
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You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest…
— Gore Vidal
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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…
— Eric Alterman
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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.…
— Richard Schickel
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Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor…
— Guy P. Harrison
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Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea…
— Lawrence Bender
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Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want…
— Lawrence Bender
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
— Denis Diderot
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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human…
— Gary Hamel
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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:…
— Peter O'Toole
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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…
— Eric Ries
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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…
— Mitt Romney
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You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of…
— Jesse Ventura
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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…
— Norbert Wiener
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The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
— Victor Hugo
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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