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Quotes About Inconsistency

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory
~ Alexander Pushkin
Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.
~ Duncan J. Watts
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility.
~ Pope Francis
Policymakers have demonstrated a predilection for giving the greatest amount of deference to state and other elite actors, rather than to their users. Increased complexity has led to a greater propensity for inconsistency and error, as the following chapters illustrate. This, combined with ever-increasing scale, has created a crisis of legitimacy and, for many individuals for whom these platforms constitute a vital tool, an untenable situation.
~ Jillian York
The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
~ Jim Butcher
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
~ Joan Bauer
People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection, yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that I always feel revived, as by a new conviction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and, wanting these, I relapse into doubt, and too often into despondency.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Il « devrait » appeler ce soir : en général, il le fait trois jours après la dernière rencontre. Mais le « devoir », la « régularité » n'ont pas vraiment leur place ici.
~ Annie Ernaux
If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.
~ Michael Keaton
Strikers get periods like this, periods when you do everything right and others when you can't do anything properly.
~ Javier Zanetti
When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
~ Yaya Toure
OR. Nor are the Gods who are called wise any less false than winged dreams. There is much inconsistency both among the Gods and among mortals.
~ Euripides
MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20]
~ Euripides
MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20] MEN. But an unstable mind is an unjust thing to possess, and
~ Euripides
What do you remember—their kisses? All sorts of things…. Men are different with women. Different in what way? Oh, entirely—and quite inexpressibly. Men who had the most firmly rooted reputation for being this way or that would sometimes be surprisingly inconsistent with me. Brutal men were tender, negligible men were astonishingly loyal and lovable, and, often, honorable men took attitudes that were anything but honorable. For
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yes, everything's just fine. It's all perfectly fine. Except for one thing: it's all screwed up.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Nadie me ofende si me contradice: para una criatura como yo, de opiniones tan poco sólidas, y de sentimientos tan cambiantes, la discrepancia no tiene aquel sentido de agravio que asume para los firmes y para los dogmáticos, porque yo vivo en habitual discordancia conmigo mismo".
~ Fernando Pessoa
Totul este orgoliu ?i incon?tien??. Totul e dorin?? de agita?ie,de a face lucruri,de a l?sa o urm?.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tanta inconsecuencia en querer bastarme a mí mismo!¡ ¡Tanta conciencia sarcástica de sensaciones imaginadas! Tanto enredo del alma con las sensaciones, de los pensamientos con el aire y el río, para decir que me duele la vida en el olfato en conciencia, para no saber decir, como en la frase sencilla y total del libro de Job, mi alma está cansada de mi vida.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)
~ Fernando Savater
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
~ Pat Oliphant
It's feast or famine in showbiz.
~ Joan Rivers