Quotes of Inept - somelinesforyou

“ Russians are exiting from communism in a most unfortunate and awkward way. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ”

- John Dryden

“ Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses...in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ I hate all bungling like sin, but most of all bungling in state affairs, which produces nothing but mischief to thousands and millions. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment. ”

- Delta Burke

“ I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. ”

- Ingrid Bergman

“ For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. ”

- Bible

“ I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. ”

- Anatole France

“ What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ”

- Charles Darwin

“ Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ I always made an awkward bow. ”

- John Keats
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