A Quote by Tom Robbins

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

Tom Robbins

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Consistent Course Inconsistent Only

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Tom Robbins
American - Novelist
Born: July 22, 1936

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

Larry Wall

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

Louis D. Brandeis

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

Havelock Ellis

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.

Randall Terry

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

John Bercow

[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.

Rob Lowe

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Minoru Yamasaki

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Michael Kors

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Larry Wall

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

Rick Santorum

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.

Sarah Weddington

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.