Inconsistent Quotes
146 quotes by 128 authors
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The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a…
— Carl Sagan
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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
— Thomas Cahill
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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to…
— Thomas Paine
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It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
— Brennan Manning
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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
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this…
— Russell Brand
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Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions…
— Emily Maguire
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Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly,…
— Tori Spelling
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I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true…
— George Sand
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Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or…
— Paul Fussell
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The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread…
— Michael Kors
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
— Oscar Wilde
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the…
— Bayard Rustin
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When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.
— Drew Barrymore
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If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent…
— Koren Zailckas
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