Quotes About Inconsistency

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

Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.

I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

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

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods.

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — a streak of lean and a streak of fat.

Recently I saw a movie in which people were eating take-out pizza in 1948 and it drove me nuts. There was no take-out pizza in 1948. There was barely any pizza, and barely any takeout.

self-defeating statement is one that fails to meet its own standard.

THE HOT WATER'S a scorcher and the cold water's like a winter puddle, and the shower offers nothing in between.

That was Chas. Furious and black-hearted one minute, ready to crack a wry joke the next.

Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after.

Man is a chimera, a monstrosity composed of an indeterminable number of contradictions.

Nothing works for everybody.

She's always late, except when we're late, and then she gives us unmitigated shit.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.