Nonfiction Reading for Women's History Month

Incompatible Quotes

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Erik Pevernagie
“While times are changing at a lightning-fast pace, new rules exact inexorable adjustments, in line with our encounters, consistent with our experiences, and in step with our needs. If they appear, however, to be incompatible with our inner self, they may raise a hell of a war in our mind and compel us to take to the hills. (“If he doesn't play ball»)”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: adjustments, encounters, experiences, incompatible, inner-self, mind, play-ball, rules, take-to-the-hills, war
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Bianca Scardoni
“Everything about the house was rich, and dense, and rooted. It was everything I wasn’t. Even the air, with its distinct smell of oak wood and sage, spoke to its identify and its history. I couldn’t help but feel small here. Overwhelmed. Incompatible.”
― Bianca Scardoni, Inception
tags: house, identity, inception, incompatible, new-beginnings, overwhelmed, roots, small, the-marked
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
tags: accountant, accountants, accounting, adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, at-odds, axiom, axioms, bad-people, bad-person, bankrupt, bankruptcy, business, business-man, business-men, business-people, business-person, business-woman, business-women, businesses, choice, choose, chose, clash, companies, company, conflict, contradict, contradiction, deep, desire, desires, dictum, dictums, dilemma, epigram, epigrams, force, forced, friction, funny, gnome, gnomes, good-people, good-person, humor, humorous, humour, income, incomes, incompatibility, incompatible, insightful, loss, losses, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maximize, maxims, maximum, minimize, minimum, mismatch, money, philosopher, profit, profit-and-loss, profits, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, revenue, revenues, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, seller, sellers, selling, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful
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Patricia Highsmith
“How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
tags: blind, carol, incompatible, indifferent, patricia-highsmith, the-price-of-salt
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E.M. Forster
“In other words, they belong to types that could fall in love, but couldn't live together.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
tags: e-m-forster, fall-in-love, howards-end, incompatible, not-meant-to-be, relationships, starcrossed-lovers
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: analysis, analyze, choices, combination, combine, comparable, compatability, compatible, congruent, contemplate, contemplation, cooperate, decisions, force, force-fit, hornet, hornet-s-nest, incompatible, incongruent, logic, logical, opposed, opposite, thinking, thoughtful, uncooperative, wisdom, wise
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: challenges-obstacles, challenging, compatible, correct, destination, determination, difficult, easy, effort, hard, incompatible, journey, mission, obstacle, path, purpose, resolve, right, sacrifice, smooth, success, tenacity, work
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Christina Engela
“Different people think of different versions of 'God' - a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul. These are incompatible, irreconcilable - and you thought having 'one world religion' or 'one God' would unite humanity?”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner
tags: different-people, fearful, ghoul, god, incompatible, irreconcilable, loving-father, one-god, one-world-religion, punishing, unite-humanity, versions
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“Why do you like me? Why can't you tell I'm not that into you?”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
tags: incompatible, kristen-roupenian, miscommunication, relationships, unspoken, you-know-you-want-this
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Steven Magee
“The medical implant industry needs to decide if wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation is more important than life saving medical devices, as it is clear that the two are incompatible.”
― Steven Magee
tags: devices, frequency, implant, incompatible, industry, life, medical, radiation, radio, rf, saving, wireless
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Like some people, some things are like oil and frozen water.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: antagonistic, discord, incompatible, like-night-and-day, mutually-exclusive, oil, oil-and-water, poles-apart, water, worlds-apart
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Brant Hansen
“We’re all ultimately incompatible. If I were to meet my exact clone, it would just be a matter of time before I and me would go our separate ways.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something
tags: clone, incompatible, separate
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Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
“Incompatibility is a misnomer in divorce. No human replicates another. They were compatible all the way from dating to wedding only to become incompatibility in wedlock? Weird! This is the case of two adult bodies clinging to the emotions and reasonings of babes. Ironically, that's what they call each other - babe.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
tags: babes, childish, dating, divorce-replica, incompatible, misnomer, wedding
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Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
“Incompatibility is a misnomer in divorce. No human is a replica of another hence we're all different. They were complimentary all the way from dating to wedding only to become incompatible in wedlock? Weird! This is the case of two adult bodies clinging to the emotions and reasonings of babes. Ironically, that's what they call each other - babe.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
tags: babes, childish, dating, divorce-replica, incompatible, misnomer, wedding
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Steven Magee
“The above ground electrical utility power lines are incompatible with high winds.”
― Steven Magee
tags: above-ground, electrical-utility, hawaiian-islands, high-voltage, high-winds, incompatible, lahaina, maui, power-lines, wildfires
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