Quotes About Inconsistency

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.

Voters, like history, are under no obligation to make sense.

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Exception. Dites qu'elle confirme la règle. Ne vous risquez pas à expliquer comment.

We want to make people consistent and predictable and simple, but they never are.

Some weeks I play well and beat a bunch of players and do super-well in tournaments.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.

Here's how they rated him when the looked back: sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.

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.

The spelling of place names in Anglo Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres.

When the coronavirus-positive cases were 500 in the country, you ordered the shops to shut down, and now when the tally has crossed 50,000 you are opening them. I don't understand the logic.

If you listen to Donald Trump speak on almost any given issue, you will hear him take both sides of that issue - in the same sentence, sometimes. It's very, very hard to pin him down in any specific way.

This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himself available.

Estamos construidos a base de incoherencias, y es nuestra capacidad para convivir con ese material inestable lo que nos permite prosperar.