Inconsistent Quotes

• Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

  Tom Robbins

  Consistent, Courses

  "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Belief, Opinion, Absurdity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Two, People, Groups

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• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

  Zig Ziglar

  Truth, Way, Conflict

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 04, 2014

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• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau

  Literature, Modesty, Fidelity

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

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• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Government, Principles

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• I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

  Chris Hemsworth

  House, Personality, Lazy

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• It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

  Dave Eggers

  Family, Taste, Our Family

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

  Tryon Edwards

  Law, Facts, Assuming

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.434, Ravenio Books

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• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  Bryan White

  Wise, Business, Personality

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• I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Thinking, People

  South Carolina Democratic primary debate, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

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• Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

  David Limbaugh

  Ideas, Obamacare, Government

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• Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Play, Giving, Wish

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• I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Want, Mastery

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Heart, Mean

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• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

  Edward Young

  Nature, Men, Unjust

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts, etc”, p.16

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• From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.

  Russell Brand

  Dad, Ideas, Identity

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• I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.

  George Sand

  Believe, Heart, Character

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• Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.

  Emily Maguire

  Integrity, Men, Alex

  Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.93, Picador Australia

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• Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, God, Christian

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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• The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Inability, Trial And Error

  "Cosmos".

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• She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Running, Flower, Radiance

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• The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.

  Joan Bauer

  Hate, Heart, Opposites

  Joan Bauer (2006). “Best Foot Forward”, p.73, Penguin

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• Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Eye, Errors, Cake

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