Erratic Quotes - Page 2

• One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Men, Vote

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.46, Editions Didier Millet

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• I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clouds, Mirrors, Rocks

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• [...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

  Georgette Heyer

  Memories, Remember, Said

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• Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

  Terry Pratchett

  Past, Understanding, Next

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• Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Running, Handwriting, Letters

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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• Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

  Marisha Pessl

  Fighting, Men, Justice

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.498, Penguin

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• My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Heart, Useless, Ulcers

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• There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

  Bill Vaughan

  Destiny, Men, Light

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• Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.

  Max Heindel

  Cancer, Past, Epilepsy

  Max Heindel (2016). “Occult principles of health and healing”, p.96, Max Heindel

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• Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.

  David Plotz

  Powerful, Book, Reading

  "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.43, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

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• Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, May, Absurd

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• One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief.

  Robby Mook

  Voters, Behavior, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Agendas, Littles

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

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• I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Listening

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• Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Writing, Distraction

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• A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

  Antony Starr

  People, Personality, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

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• Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.

  Wanda Coleman

  Sleep, Lifestyle, Deficit

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• Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money are often contradictory, illogical, deep-rooted, and scarcely known even to our most secret selves. We are getting better at handling money, but what it means to us, how we use it to express ourselves, and how it can help us become all that we are meant to be remain murky issues.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Money, Mean, Issues

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• Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Bully, Soul, Machines

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• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  Charles Dickens

  Water, Listening, May

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• An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

  Alain de Botton

  Teacher, Writing, Careers

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Sea, Long, Phrases

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• If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

  Eric Nicol

  Golf, Lines, Opponents

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• God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.

  David Plotz

  Hero, People, Challenges

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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