Incompetent Quotes
146 quotes by 134 authors
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry…
— Russell Baker
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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best…
— Martin Van Buren
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
— John Cleese
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I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for…
— Diablo Cody
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The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission,…
— Bertrand Piccard
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No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that…
— Paulo Freire
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
— Cyril Connolly
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
— William Allen White
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
— H. L. Mencken
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This…
— Barry McCaffrey
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath,"…
— Richard J. Foster
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...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the…
— Noah Webster
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About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything…
— Ayn Rand
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
— Sun Tzu
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An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.
— Evelle J. Younger
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The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring…
— Martin Luther
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No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
— H. Bentley Glass
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Are you lazy or just incompetent?
— Jeff Bezos
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