Quotes About Inconsistency

Whether particular people with the capacity to take an objective point of view actually do take this objective viewpoint into account when they act will depend on the strength of their desire to avoid inconsistency between the way they reason publicly and the way they act.

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just—change. With nothing causing it.

People say one thing, adopt a public position, and are then quite different on the inside and privately act in a totally different way. They have an expression for this: 'the shifting sands'—ramál mutaharrika

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

When he was on, he was on—loving everything, everybody. But when he was off, he was off—cold, distant, short. Tom Hall came up with a nickname for the behavior. In computers, information is represented in bits. A bit can be either on or off. Tom called Romero's mood swings the bit flip.

Darwin hat a wonderful scientific habit of noticing facts that seemed inconsistent with his theories.

the anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs

Nothing irritated her more than these high-and-mighty vegetarians who ate meat sometimes and then decided that it didn't really count.

Don't go to the hardware store for milk.

It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshipers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshiped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.(138-139)

No day is alike, nor should it be.

The true lover was suffering for the sins of the false. This inconsistency is unfortunately only to be expected so long as men do not know how many flowers are mown down in a young woman's soul by the first stroke of treachery.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals

The nature of money is that it comes and goes; it is not a constant like you and I and for that reason, we should not worry when an inconsistent entity does not exist as we wish it to for that is not integral to its nature.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

But the fact is that the human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality.

Every hater is a hypocrite. Sometimes he loves, and sometimes he hates.

Sometimes I love being mean, sometimes I don't.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox

Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?