For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story. – Pawan Mishra
- Satan rejoices when we are inconsistent, because he knows that an inconsistent Christian is an ineffective Christian-”or worse. – Billy Graham
- Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself – John Jakes
- I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. – Anita Brookner
- If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal. – JSB Morse
- It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price.Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature and nature alone. – Paul Oxton
- Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. – Debasish Mridha
- Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. – Simone de Beauvoir
- … You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying… – Emily Bront
- Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore -“ if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? – Villiers de LIsleAdam
- Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79) – Stephen Levine
- I just know that any time I undertake a case, I’m apt to run into some kind of a trap. – Carolyn Keene
- One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere. – Timur Vermes
- It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors. – LG Abell
- Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person. – Toba Beta
- In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent. – Len Peters
- Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run. – Md Mujib Ullah
- Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort. – Thomas Watson
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
- There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap – Kirtida Gautam
- You can’t change laws without first changing human nature… You can’t change human nature without first changing the law. – Neal Shusterman
- Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. – Edmund Beecher Wilson
- Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. – George Santayana
- Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature. – Hermann Hesse
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- In the long run most short cuts are flawed – especially on journeys to ‘so-called’ success – Rasheed Ogunlaru
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