Incompetents Quotes

#1. Incompetents invariably made trouble for people other than themselves.

Larry McMurtry

#2. There are many lights in the shadows and many shadows in the lights; lots of talents in the shades, lots of incompetents in the luminosities.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.

Robert James Waller

#4. Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

Everett Dirksen

#5. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

Alice Duer Miller

#6. All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.

Laurence J. Peter

#7. Thigpen gave her that cringing, sly feeling incompetents in denial always engendered. In government service, she'd felt it enough times to trust her instincts. Randy

Nevada Barr

#8. Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.

Adolf Hitler

#9. Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

Sargent Shriver

#10. Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#11. Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.

Walter E. Williams

#12. I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Luke Ford

#13. More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

Adolf Hitler

#14. At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.

Clive Sinclair

#15. Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Andy Hargreaves

#16. He who writes our every story needs no annotation from me.

Eli Brown

#17. The sale of indulgences is sometimes regarded as one of the first major waves of capitalist commodification. It certainly laid the basis for all that hoarded wealth in the Vatican. Talk about the commodification of conscience and honor!

David Harvey

#18. I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.

Juliet Rylance

#19. A year ago, you fell into my arms and I felt some crazy connection to you. I'm sure as hell not good enough for you, and I'm sure as hell not making any promises, but I'm damn sure you were worth waiting for.

Victoria James

#20. He wanted to say something beautiful, I think.

John Steinbeck

#21. I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#22. I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

Chic Murray

#23. It's a secret. My previous best friend suspected, and now she's at the bottom of a well. (Not really. She's in Poland. I had nothing to do with it

Laini Taylor

#24. If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#25. A GIANT SMILE spread across Pops's face when they entered the Blend bar. "What?" Wendy asked. "More cougars on those bar stools than on the Discovery Channel." The

Harlan Coben

#26. I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

Karlie Kloss

#27. What's wrong, Eric? Aggie asked.
"He got his period,"Trey said.

Olivia Cunning

#28. Jatred's white teeth flashed in an inviting smirk. To irritate the men even more, he motioned to them with his hand, ending the movement with a flip of his middle finger.
"Come and get it, grandpas," he hissed.

A.O. Peart