When Liesel left that day, she said something with great uneasiness. In translation, two giant words were struggled with, carried on her shoulder, and dropped as a bungling pair at Ilsa Hermann's feet. They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud and clumsy. Two giant words...I'm sorry.
Quotes about bungling (11 Quotes)
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly.
And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways', Yossarian continued 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements Why in the world did He ever create pain.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
With Roberts' confirmation hearings set to begin, the White House's bureaucratic bungling and political stonewalling must come to an end.
... He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
Lawmakers blistered former FEMA chief Michael Brown for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina and for blaming the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans. During a hearing of a House committee investigating the response, some lawmakers accused Brown of placing his own job security ahead of storm victims' lives. I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... I have overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I am doing. And I think I do a pretty darn good job of it.
This is going from bad to worse it's an absolute shambles. Some children may not get their education because of the bungling of the Local Education Authority.
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses... in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them.
President Bush was in trouble. Nothing was going right, and the war in Iraq was rapidly losing support. Democrats smelled victory but kept bungling the chance. Their nominee was so unappealing that Bush and the GOP scored a giant victory.
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people