Quotes About Compatibility

Never try to seduce someone who is of your own type. You will be like two puzzles missing the same parts.

True, they (numbers) are our invention and we have free will: but only to act compatibly with the world we've made.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't.

Gilbert would never have dreamed of writing a sonnet to her eyebrows. But then, Gilbert could see a joke. She had once told Roy a funny story—and he had not seen the point of it. She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run. But who could expect a melancholy, inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things? It would be flatly unreasonable.

I kind of think she's one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.

Over many decades technological optimists have been sustained by the belief that whatever happened to be created in the sphere of material/instrumental culture would certainly be compatible with freedom, democracy, and social justice. This amounts to a conviction that all technology—whatever its size, shape, or complexion—is inherently liberating. For reasons noted in the previous chapter, that is a very peculiar faith indeed.

I said we oughta get married," Louisa said loudly. "What I like about you is you're quiet. Jim talked every second that he didn't have a whiskey bottle in his mouth. I got tired of listening. Also, you're skinny. If you don't last, you'll be easy to bury. I've buried enough husbands to take such things into account. What do you say?

we find mates who bring out the worst in us: a partner is sent by the universe as a character test, to expose what you're really made of.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

every successful hardware has a software behind

I like guys with a sense of humor who smile a lot and are kind.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

affection for her, of the compatibility

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

A woman choses a man she thinks she deserves then sets out to change him to suit herself

The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.

In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.

In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.

a lack of love: between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself.

It is the capacity to tolerate difference that is the true marker of the right person. Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.