Quotes About Incompatibility

The creative act of the humorist consisted in bringing about a momentary fusion between two habitually incompatible matrices. Scientific discovery, as we shall presently see, can be described in very similar terms-as the permanent fusion of matrices of thought previously believed to be incompatible.

It is an awful, just sickening feeling, I discovered, to live with somebody, to exist in the midst of sharing a life, only to realize it is utterly doomed. It was botulism of the soul. I'd had such ambition for building a life together, because I wanted that strength of character and security. But I had overlooked the most important thing: he wasn't right for me. I wasn't right for him. Merely wanting us to be right and good together wasn't enough.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Badgers and cats don't mix, and that's the end of it.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

hextable n. The record you find in someone else's collection which instantly tells you you could never go out with them.

A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

It was clear to me that both were intelligent, kind people, but careless with each other's feelings, and poles apart in temperament. I liked both immensely; I hated their way together.

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships.

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by "a world of enemies," "one against all," that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

You can't argue with someone whose premises are completely different from yours, where there is not even an inch of common ground

It was towards the end of June that incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.

It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.

Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.

I couldn't sign for Barca, as I can't play football the way Xavi wants.