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Quotes About Inconsistency

If you look at the teams that mix and match their starting lineup a great deal, that sort of inconsistency frequently leads to inconsistency in performance.
~ J. B. Bickerstaff
Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.
~ Ring Lardner
A woman would do a thing until you were sure she always would, then do something else just to fuddle you.
~ Robert Jordan
Man handelte in diesem Land - und mitunter bis zu den höchsten Graden der Leidenschaft und ihren Folgen - immer anders, als man dachte, oder dachte anders, als man handelte.
~ Robert Musil
Robert Baxter isn't often known to tell the truth." "Come, come, Cornelia, I think he generally tells the truth, but he changes his opinion so often it sometimes sounds as if he didn't.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other
~ Larry Wall
I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me. Yet you would have shot him. I shrugged. I never said I was consistent, just serious.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Every time I thought I understood the rules, they changed. Why was it that the damn rules always seemed to change for the worse?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Total consistency is an appalling virtue.
~ Laurence Lerner
Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent
~ Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
~ Alan Moore
It may be that Anglicans will have to realize that it is one of the glories of their tradition that it is a tradition without logic or consistency, which depends on the strong clash of opposites, and which in the end provides heroes who are examples of human frailty rather than role-models for uncomplicated courage – which forces the individual to undertake a good deal of hard thinking in order to make sense of the world around, rather than reaching for some simple model in a book.
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch
Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day.
~ Don Winslow
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
~ John Hurt
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
~ Javier Marías
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
~ Mark Twain
You own a dog but you feed a cat.
~ Jenny de Vries
It was a total catch-22, like a contradiction in terms.
~ Jenny Han
My parents were consistently inconsistent.
~ Jenny O'Connell
The prime minister is a Labour Tory. There's a mosque at the end of your street and a French restaurant next door. We are neither in nor out of Europe. We are famous for our beer but we drink in wine bars. We are not a colonial power but we still have a commonwealth. We are jealous of the rich but we buy into the Hello! celebrity culture. We live in a United Kingdom that's no longer united. We are muddled.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Whereas Eloise gravitated toward retro granny chic and was pulled together on a daily basis, I either looked like a high school student who had just rolled out of bed, thrown on leggings, and gone to class, or a full-blown escort. There was no in-between.
~ Erin McCarthy
Eroarea lui André Breton este,poate,de a se fi luat prea în serios.Trebuie s? te iei doar puÈ›in în serios,altminteri totul e inconsistent.Dar dac? te iei prea în serios,nu mai exist? libertate,e gata puÈ™c?ria,strangularea.Nu mai ai cu adev?rat libertate de miÈ™care.Nu te mai miÈ™ti,eÈ™ti prins,eÈ™ti una cu lucrurile,nu mai ai distanÈ›a necesar? de a vedea clar.Trebuie s? fii numai pe jum?tate serios.
~ Eugene Ionesco