Feckless Quotes

#1. You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Janet Morris

#2. In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

George Will

#3. Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

Maria Montessori

#4. Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. 'The Girls' tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritually attached for eternity. Born joined at the head in 1974 to a feckless teenage mother who abandons them, and reared by a delightfully open-minded adoptive couple, the Darlen girls are darling girls, indeed.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#6. Not to mention Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless, who are all under-producing and their milk is sour and they won't go anywhere near the yard.

Charles Stross

#7. My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. Encyclopedia-selling was known to be the last resort of the feckless, the inept, and the desperate

Margaret Atwood

#9. It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.

Jane Jacobs

#10. It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

Frank Rich

#12. If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

David H. Hackworth

#13. Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Ann Coulter

#14. I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.'
'But we're not. You've confused the two thnigs again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-indulgent... wanker.'
'Thanks.

Nick Hornby

#15. Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.

Noorilhuda

#16. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#17. I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Martin O'Malley

#18. Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon the global Scale, Enterprisers and Quacks, - these are the last poor fallen and feckless inheritors of a knowledge they can never use, but in the service of Greed.

Thomas Pynchon

#19. Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

Richard Hammond

#20. I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

Sue Townsend

#21. A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.'

Jimmy Fallon

#22. Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

James Surowiecki

#23. The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.

C.S. Lewis

#24. The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

Camille Paglia

#25. A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child - but what child isn't?

Gregory Maguire

#26. Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent ...

Richard Hammond

#27. She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings ...

Jean Genet

#28. Feckless Fixation [10w]
Poets worry too much about other poets instead of writing.

Beryl Dov

#29. I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

Drew Barrymore

#30. Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty.

Madame De Pompadour

#31. One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

David Plotz

#32. Eating more than you need is not necessarily a sign of a chemical imbalance or eating the wrong types of food. It is a sign that you are fundamentally out of balance.

Nancy Dale

#33. Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last ... to the North Pole.

Ernest Shackleton

#34. When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Amelia Earhart

#35. Life is a series of problems.

Maxwell Maltz

#36. You read the most obscure, hyperspecific academic articles on the planet to the point where you develop actual burning ire over scholars you've never met. ("Can you believe that the interpretation of Patel et al. contradicts that of Chen et al.? Those sons of bitches!")

Adam Ruben

#37. My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

Dick Dale