Quotes for All
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those … Read more
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks. Emo Philips
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God. Emily Carr
All the things that are negative in me as a person – the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain – are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don’t hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a … Read more
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. Elbert Hubbard
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none … Read more
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him. Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together – the incompetence of all of their governments…The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what’s the difference? … Read more
I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline. Forrest Gregg
The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated … Read more