Quotes About Incompatibility

When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable.

But why not?  What objection do you find?' 'Firstly, he is at least forty years old—considerably more, I should think—and I am but eighteen; secondly, he is narrow-minded and bigoted in the extreme; thirdly, his tastes and feelings are wholly dissimilar to mine; fourthly, his looks, voice, and manner are particularly displeasing to me; and, finally, I have an aversion to his whole person that I never can surmount.

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

He would always make her feel too big and too gruff and too shocking; she would forever be trying to watch her words when she was with him. He was not the kind of person who liked her true self, for better or worse.

Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink.

One of the worst things about people was how easily they didn't go together.

The conception of "I am not" must of necessity follow the conception of "I am," because of its grammar, as surely in this world of sorrow night follows day. The recognition of pain as such, implies the idea of pleasure, and so with all ideas. By this duality, let him remember to laugh at all times, recognize all things, resist nothing; then there is no conflict, incompatibility or compulsion as such.

He'd never been able to say no to her – even when he should have known that a girl like her wanted something better than a cowboy like him.

He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.

monomachy? Impossible. I'm not of the contending class

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

scientific insight and furnished lodgings: the incompatibility

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

CHAPTER XLVI IT CANNOT BE ARRANGED

She felt sure that she never could love him. Had it been on the cards with her to love any man as a lover, it would have been some handsome spendthrift who would have hung from her neck like a nether millstone. This

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?

It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence

You with your veins full of night — you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus.

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

Hot he might be, but he wasn't her type at all…

The history of science abounds with examples of discoveries greeted with howls of laughter because they seemed to be a marriage of incompatibles-until the marriage bore fruit and the alleged incompatibility of the partners turned out to derive from prejudice. The humorist, on the other hand, deliberately chooses discordant codes of behaviour or universes of discourse to expose their hidden incongruities in the resulting clash. Com