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Quotes About Irreconcilable

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
~ Joseph Ratzinger
Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.
~ Bill Bryson
On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.
~ Frederick Franck
In nature all things are close to or distant from each other. The psychological world knows first the intermediate region of distance seducing to nearness, nearness pressing towards distance, of an irreconcilable closeness-distance.
~ Helmuth Plessner
Across the board, identity politics endorse the concept that people are essentially tribal, and our differences are irreconcilable, which of course makes diversity and inclusion impossible. This is the toxic dead-end of identity politics; it's a trap.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
War Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, everyone knows what war is like. But occupation is more terrible in a way, because people get used to one another. We tell ourselves, 'They're just like us, after all,' but they're not at all the same. We're two different species, irreconcilable, enemies forever.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
En pocas horas el país se dividió en dos bandos irreconciliables y la división comenzó a extenderse entre todas las familias.
~ Isabel Allende
There were irreconcilable differences among the congregations in town, but members from all of them merged solidly on the necessity of this action: Do what you have to. Neither the Convent nor the women in it can continue.
~ Toni Morrison
Within him wrestled invisibly many contrary and irreconcilable feelings, especially the contrast between the greatness that he felt in his soul and the misery and weakness of what he was able to express and reveal before others.
~ Ivo Andri?
the workingman, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. The capitalist, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division. When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division.
~ Jack London
When there is only so much of the same thing, and when two men want all they can get of the same thing, there is a conflict of interest between labor and capital. And it is an irreconcilable conflict. As long as workingmen and capitalists exist, they will continue to quarrel over the division. If you were in San Francisco this afternoon, you'd have to walk. There isn't a street car running. Another strike?* the Bishop queried with alarm. *
~ Jack London
I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution - and therefore science - is not irreconcilable with love.
~ Che Guevera
And some sad news ... the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.
~ leno jay
Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms—that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man—but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.
~ James Shapiro
Las proporciones corporales y el pesar no deben guardar necesariamente relación. El cuerpo macizo tiene tanto derecho a estar profundamente afligido como el más gracioso conjunto de miembros finos. Pero, justo o no, hay cosas irreconciliables que la razón tratará de justificar en vano
~ Jane Austen
The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
All one's actual apprehension of what it is like to be a woman, the irreconcilable difference of it—that sense of living one's deepest life underwater, that dark involvement with blood and birth and death—could now be declared in valid, unnecessary, one never felt it at all.
~ Joan Didion
I suspect this is always the way with conmen: they don't even have to construct a whole story, their victims fill in the gaps, reconcile the irreconciliables – their victims do most of the work.
~ Lynn Barber
Family is always irreplaceable, even when they're also irreconcilable.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.
~ Mary Renault
The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.
~ Max Weber