Inconsistent Quotes

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent!

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.