Erratic Quotations

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

I don't feel at any point of the match that I really had any rhythm. I don't think I got nearly as many returns in today. ... It was a much more erratic match, where the points were just going fast. I didn't know quite what was going to happen.

There are too many stories out there about erratic behavior. You don't want to see a meltdown or some sort of erratic behavior in front of a stern judge.

She expressed concern (that) the erratic manner in which they were driving might result in one of them falling under the wheels either of the lead car or the backup.

We are experiencing rather erratic fire behavior due to the increase in winds, ... This is hampering suppression efforts.

What I know about him is that he has a good power arm. Obviously, he has struggled with his command from time to time and been erratic from time to time.

With many investors drifting away early for the Thanksgiving holiday and with the fixed income markets scheduled to close early on Wednesday, the clear potential is for some erratic price action in illiquid markets,

I live off my scholarship refunds. Because of my erratic schedule, I can't work but my scholarship money helps with my expenses.

He was effectively erratic I guess. That was probably the most erratic we've seen him in a while. But the bottom line is he made pitches when he had to make them. Sometimes he may get out of sync, but he has a way of gathering himself when he has to.

He was erratic with his command and made a lot of mistakes today.

He was a little erratic early with his cutter. He got in some hitter's counts but he came back to get some big outs.

He was a little more erratic in those early games. But he's more consistent now.

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Recent figures have been erratic and this quarter's are disappointing. However, taking the year as a whole the number of people in work is up by over 200,000.

I saw him today for the first time throwing BP. He's got great arm strength. He was a little erratic today command-wise. Obviously, he's got good stuff. I think he's going to be a great addition for them.

With the exception of some erratic pitching, we played pretty solid. Overall, we hit the ball better and we're scoring some runs, just not enough. We're making some mistakes that cost us at inopportune times.

We have been quite skeptical throughout January because data tend to be erratic around the holidays and the turn of the year.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

Whether people believe his predictions or not everyone seems to look to the groundhog to predict some kind of relief in the midst of winter. With all the erratic weather we've experienced so far across the United States this winter we thought our players might enjoy a chance to have some fun with it.

We're not as crisp in areas that we need to be in. One thing is pitching. We have a couple of things where pitchers have gotten into their starts and they've been a little bit erratic and getting into deep counts. That is where it starts, with pitching.

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

At this point in camp, our production has been erratic at best. I just think we have a lot of ground we have to cover, and we only have a couple of weeks to go. I haven't seen a lot of things I was hoping to see out of this group. I was hoping to see a step up and have a big improvement, but the improvements we've had have been marginal, and in a couple of cases I won't say that guys have regressed, but they haven't progressed at all. Right now, I'm not real thrilled.

While the monthly data is often erratic and the government statisticians warn that it takes four months to establish a change in trend, it is pretty clear from the top chart that the explosion in housing from 1997 through early 2000 is ending.

The southerly is going to cause us a lot of problems in the next few hours ... we are expecting some very erratic weather conditions and it is actually going to make the firefighters' job even harder.

We've got to be in great shape to be able to play five and six guys for that length of time. Our kids are in great shape. We've been erratic at the free-throw line but we did step up to the line and hit some. The first thing to go if you're tired is going to be your legs. If those goes then those free throws are going to be pretty hard to make.

That game is a real concern because that's a big division game that you expect to play well in. That was a combination of poor mistakes, not winning one-on-one battles and erratic play. At times, you had guys scared to make a play.

Temperatures are going up, and that is very conducive to fire. We had a real erratic wind.

Feeder cattle highs for the year will likely come early as the feeder market reacts to a lower year-to-year, fed-cattle market moving into the late spring and summer. Feeder cattle basis levels in April and May could be highly erratic due to forced early movement of wheat cattle off winter grazing programs.

Erratic play. What we're trying to develop is consistency. We had that for two weeks, and we won. All of a sudden, we had a game where we needed consistent play and veteran leadership, and we didn't get either from those two guys when we needed it.

There's going to be times you're going to erratic with your fastball, times when the curveball is not going to be there,

The weather increased the erratic nature of the report. Places like Florida saw building delays in November, and now they're catching up in December.

A few of the guys were a little bit erratic but Daren Powell bowled well when he got it right.

In the first half, our defense was erratic and we had a lot of shots rim out. But in the second half they worked really hard to come back. We had our chances, but we missed too many free throws.

I've kind of been more erratic than I'd like to be, but I'm all right. The more times I get out there, the better I feel. I feel like I can make some adjustments and make some better pitches.

It was good to see him out there. He was erratic in his command. But he's got such a good arm that he can pitch from behind in the count at times. It will be easier for him when he works ahead.

Cindy has brilliant moments. She pitched kind of erratic today; she had four walks and wasn't exactly as good as she wants to be. But she's a good pitcher, she's coming around.

His behavior is so erratic it's hard to know what his testimony will mean for his case. But he has a right to testify.

I'll never forget how nervous I was. It was almost like getting transferred to a new high school in your senior year. Everybody watching you. I was so erratic they either swung or I almost hit them. But it's funny. They still believed in me. I thought I was going to get released after that.

In too many cases, appeals panels are erratic and their judgements are based wholly on the circumstances of the individual child, without giving enough thought to other pupils and teachers in the school,

They view it that that is more likely to keep the overall economy performing in a relatively smooth way so that the seasonality - if there is any - in credit demands doesn't cause large swings in interest rates, which in turn cause activity to turn on and turn off in an erratic way.

It looked like he got more comfortable as the game went on, ... He was a little erratic at first. I think the more reps he gets, the better he will be.

An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.

The Nasdaq appears to be probing for a bottom, ... The more erratic the Nasdaq is, the more attractive the old economy stocks appear to be for investors who want to be risk averse.

After several days being increasingly optimistic, particularly in the chip sector, investors are now pulling back somewhat wondering if they have again jumped the gun. This kind of erratic move is typical when sentiment is shifting negative to positive.

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

It's been such an erratic number of late that it's pretty tough for the market to trade on it,

At first it was erratic every time he snapped the ball but now he is doing a good job of putting it right where it needs to be. Bart, man, he is getting a whole lot better.

That sort of wind behavior is going to lead to erratic fire behavior and that will certainly cause crews some concerns because it makes it very difficult to plan where the fire is going to run to.

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.