If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you... the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character.
Quotes about inconsistency (16 Quotes)
We've only had one of these (Open Cup titles) at this club in its entire existence. We've been taking a lot of abuse from everybody about our inconsistency, but you can't measure the heart of a champion. We showed in big games, when everything is on the line, that this team has got something left. So, that being said, we are going to enjoy this thoroughly tonight and tomorrow before we put it behind us and move on.
My thing is, if you're going to let them play, let them play. There was a little bit of inconsistency, so it was hard to adapt to that.
When indignation takes possession of his mind and it is easily excited his disposition becomes malevolent. He hates with the bitterest contempt. But as soon as he has indulged those feelings, he regains the humanity which he had lost from the immediate impulse of provocation and repents deeply. So that his mind is continually making the most sudden transitions from good to evil, from evil to good. A state of such perpetual tumult must be attended with the misery of restless inconsistency. He laments his want of tranquillity and speaks of the power of application to composing studies, as a blessing placed beyond his attainment, which he regrets.
The man who sees consistency in things is a wit the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
Like any young player, there was a period of inconsistency. He can be average and then he can be Clarke MacArthur. Average isn't good enough, but he possesses the ability to be above average.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it outwith charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and notin the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.