Inconsistent Quotes - Page 5

• If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Answers, Rare Occasion, World

  Source: inters.org

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• There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other.

  Richard Dawkins

  Age, Way, Sincere

  Source: inters.org

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• Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.

  John Bolton

  Country, Real, Abuse

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place, but at least they had some place in the spectrum of the society and they had some kind of a right to live in the place. Now that's inconsistent with capitalism, which denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nice, World, Might

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• I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.112, UPNE

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• For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily nationalistic, secular. Now, suddenly we are seeing the election of a religious party with extreme political ideologies and with a social agenda that seems inconsistent with the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Religious, Party, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Passive Voice, Use, Splits

  "Sotomayoralities" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2009.

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• It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

  Debra Winger

  Gentleman, Secret, Officers

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

  Thomas Cahill

  One Thing

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World”, p.97, Anchor

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• It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

  Brennan Manning

  Fall, Cheese, Crackers

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.103, David C Cook

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• Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Taken, Long

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Broken, Unity

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• For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Human Nature, Humans, Ideals

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.125, Applewood Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Disrespect, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Two, Conflict, Norm

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

  John Henry Newman

  Morning, Men, Doe

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Fiction, Television

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