Quotes About Ineptitude

Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move.

Hmmph. This was a sorry excuse for a baby-sitting club.

But there's still this combination of governmental ineptitude, shortsightedness, stinginess, corruption, and neglect that affected the Continentals before, during, and after Valley Forge that twenty-first-century Americans are not entirely unfamiliar with. While

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

Of late the three of them wouldn't even let him dry the dishes because he'd dropped too many of them on the floor. He'd done that on purpose, since it was useful to be considered inept when it came to chore division

Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate

I don't do well with technology.

People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

I make no promises and bear no liability for your lunacy, her clumsiness or any injury my unfortunate luck, uncharacteristic ineptitude or continual stupidity may cause. -- Chayden

Los crímenes «perfectos» raras veces se producían, pero los había. Normalmente no se debían al gran talento de los criminales sino a la ineptitud continuada de las autoridades, y en general se definían por la cuestión prosaica de si el autor salía impune o no.

because when he gets really drunk he can't really handle stairs, or at least you have a lot of warning when he does.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Everywhere the crisis of the private financial system has been transformed into a tale of slovenly and overweening government that perpetuates and is perpetuated by a dependent and demanding population... For about ten days the crisis was interpreted as a consequence of the ineptitude of the highly paid, and then it transmogrified into a grudge against the populace at large.

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.

Only the inept are always at their best.

You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.

Being messy and unable to do anything about it appalled her.

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Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.