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Quotes About Inconvenience

Whenever it's on it's like having somebody in my house that I want to get rid of and they won't leave. I hate the sound of it. All that noise and light coming from a piece of furniture.
~ John Waters
She hated rain. It came at the worst times, defied prediction, and made life messy.
~ Barbara Delinsky
I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
~ Gemma Chan
One thing I always hated with CDs is when people started putting 65 to 75 minutes on their albums.
~ Lee Ranaldo
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
~ George Orwell
This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people's convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive rôle. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that 'they' will never allow him to do this, that and the other.
~ George Orwell
Parsons used the lavatory, loudly and abundantly. It then turned out that the plug was defective and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards.
~ George Orwell
When I arrived, they had to move out because the landlord allowed dogs but not babies.
~ George W. Bush
Dashed if I didn't receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what's more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I'd as lief not have done. It ain't that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why the deuce should I have to give sixpence for a thing I'd as soon not have?
~ Georgette Heyer
My team and I tried cashing checks at check-cashing places and paying bills by money order. It's incredibly inconvenient and time-consuming - it's practically a part-time job just to manage and move your money.
~ Dan Schulman
The hardest thing is when you're in public, and you need to go to the toilet, and someone asks for a photo. And their phone is either flat, dead, or they've turned it off completely. You're trying to rush to the toilet, and they want your autograph - and I hate saying no, I feel so bad.
~ Julian Dennison
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
The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?" (pp.281-82)
~ Sarah Turnbull
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
~ Mark Twain
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
~ Mark Twain
El bibliotecario se mandó la parte corriendo de acá para allá cargado de libros, con todo el alboroto y el escándalo que les encanta a las autoridades insignificantes.
~ Mark Twain
Não tenho medo da morte. Estive morto por bilhões e bilhões de anos antes de meu nascimento, e isso nunca me causou qualquer inconveniência.
~ Mark Twain
It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone.
~ Markus Zusak
with the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced.
~ Martin Amis
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
~ Martin Mull
Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.
~ Arthur Japin
Whose fault is it if the traveller instead of putting his luggage in the cart which bears the load any way, carries it on his head, to his own inconvenience?'83 There
~ Arthur Osborne