Quotes About Inconsistency

the world is full of slackers who only turn out when the weather suits them.

I'm a hypocrite and a slut and I'll change my mind tomorrow.

He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.

incongruities

"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window."

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

The cleverest people commit occasional lapses into stupidity—just as the stupid people light up with gleams of intelligence at certain times. You may have shown your usual good sense in conducting your affairs on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the week. But it doesn't at all follow from this, that you may not make a fool of yourself on Thursday.

It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths.

the nice bits of them can never make up for the offensively crappy parts. I

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.

Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird. Then, at the same time, you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

If we find people virtuous or admirable in one respect, it troubles us to find them no so in another respect. It is difficult for us to acknowledge that people are not consistent, but are instead mosaics of traits formed by different sets of experiences that often do not correlate with each other.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

Nothing works all the time

Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin.

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

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.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.