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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility. -- Pope Francis
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. -- Jonathan Swift
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. -- Horace Smith
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. -- Joseph Addison
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. -- Kenzo Tange
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people. -- Susan B. Anthony
Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it. -- Mason Cooley
Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself. -- Mark Twight
Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions. -- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top -- Boethius
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. -- John Cage
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. -- Thomas Hardy
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. -- Franklin P. Jones
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. -- Jane Austen
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. -- Joseph Addison
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human. -- Jane Austen
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency. -- Paul Johnson
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. -- Ann Radcliffe
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. -- Cass Sunstein
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. -- Lord Chesterfield
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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. -- Michael Medved
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. -- Mark Twain
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful. -- E. M. Forster
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. -- Mark Twain
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. -- Jacques Maritain
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency. -- John Owen
The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.) -- Jonathan Safran Foer
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. -- Jane Austen
To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium. -- Alaina Huffman
One cannot live without inconsistency. -- Carl Jung
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. -- James C. Collins
Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency. -- Graeme Le Saux
The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity. -- Jonah Lehrer
The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency. -- Hal Herzog
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does! -- Pawan Mishra
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did! -- George Meyer
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency. -- James C. Collins
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living -- Errol Flynn
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously. -- John Calvin
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. -- Thomas Sowell
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs! -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is"¦ for now and all eternity. -- Matt Redman
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. -- William James
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli. -- John Maynard Keynes
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. -- James Russell Lowell
Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down. -- Beth Moore
Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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