Quotes About Incompatibility

It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.

The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

and again, they were opposite of each other in every way, and each way was wonderful.

am the puzzle piece that you think will fit but doesn't. The color is a little off, the edges don't sit quite flush. You can't force it. Though you might try.

Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work.

A fish and a sparrow cannot live in the same world. one will gasp for air and the other will drown.

When the lunatic is met with ideas incompatible with his delusion he distorts facts by rationalization to preserve the inner consistency of his delusions.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

But Robin ...well, she's OK. We really don't have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.

Winston studied Elizabeth affectionately. "That was nice of you. But Robin Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, she's OK. We really don't have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.

How could I ever have been happy with her," he had asked," when her favorite colour is crushed strawberry?

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

Fire and water cannot stay in the same place. Similarly, truth and lie reflect and describe such context; accordingly, whatever one feels that an opposite one will fail to bear it.

You cannot hold fire and water together in an object nor flowers and thorns in a fist; similarly, you cannot carry vanity and love in a heart because that context contradicts each other.

The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless.

Everyone wants someone to make their odd life look like even, and a person's wisdom always shows that none can stay for long with anyone if they are incompatible with one another in this world

The best and the worst kind of person can't go together, but the rest of the people always.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I'm not.

The atheist relies not on an experience but on an idea, or pseudo idea, of God: if God existed, He would have such and such characteristics; but if he had such characteristics, He could not allow etc...His judgment of incompability, in fact, is based on a judgment of implications.

You see, Jarret?" she said softly. "It can't work. We want different things. You want to follow the wind where it leads, and I want to dig my roots deep. You're a river, and I'm a tree. The tree can never follow the river, and the river can never stay with the tree.

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.