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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. -- John Cleese
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. -- Julia Cameron
I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? -- Colin Hay
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. -- Ella Leya
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. -- Jamie Oliver
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. -- John Updike
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. -- James Joyce
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. -- Nicolas Bentley
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. -- David Foster Wallace
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. -- John Singleton
Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life. -- Max Heindel
When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent. -- Drew Barrymore
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech. -- Gareth Gates
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships. -- Antony Starr
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments. -- Gunnar Myrdal
I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional. -- Richard M. Nixon
Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine. -- Lou Ferrigno
There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him. -- John Calvin
An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results. -- Edmund Phelps
The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. -- Charles Spurgeon
I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic. -- Colin Hay
The game itself, I think, plays into the strength of my game, which has always been tee to green, hitting the ball consistently in play and managing my game. Putting has always been the one thing that's been a bit more erratic. -- Tom Lehman
Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov. -- Dave Barry
There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. -- Warren E. Burger
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem. -- Rhianna Pratchett
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. -- Orville Wright
There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. -- Warren E. Burger
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying -- Virginia Woolf
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well. -- Gloria Steinem
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. -- Terry Pratchett
my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart. -- Lauren Oliver
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion ... -- Bel Kaufman
Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle. -- Wanda Coleman
One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts. -- Demetri Martin
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards. -- Vivien Leigh
Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns. -- Shay Caroline
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to. -- Marisha Pessl
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. -- Terry Pratchett
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I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time. -- Aphex Twin
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality. -- Anne Lamott
[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability. -- David Krieger
One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief. -- Robby Mook
I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant. -- David Brooks
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. -- Lauren Oliver
A Toyota is not a toy. At least not a sex toy. However, my driving is both erratic and erotic. Tickets are ten dollars per passenger. Senior citizen discounts not available. -- Jarod Kintz
My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending. -- Marya Hornbacher

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