Oil And Water Quotes

• Friendship and money: oil and water.

  Mario Puzo

  Friendship, Money, Real Friends

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• Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

  Dionne Warwick

  Men, Vices, Levels

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• Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

  Jasper Fforde

  Oil, Water, Magic

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Last Dragonslayer: The Chronicles of Kazam”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Jim Butcher

  Orange Juice, Together, Toothpaste

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.15, Penguin Group

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• I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Oil, Water, Gasoline

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Dry Up

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• God will not accept a divided heart. He must be absolute monarch. There is not room in your heart for two thrones. You cannot mix the worship of the true God with the worship of any other god more than you can mix oil and water. It cannot be done. There is not room for any other throne in the heart if Christ is there. If worldliness should come in, godliness would go out.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Heart, Two, Thrones

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• Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Thinking, Years

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Some people are oil and water.

  John Christopher

  Oil, People, Water

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

  Artemas Ward

  Enemy, Wish, Genius

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• He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mad, Poetry, Redemption

  Edgar Allan Poe (1876). “Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir”, p.162

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Feminist, Insecurity

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• You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sleep, Caring, Air

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Years, Feminist

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• Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and we ask ourselves whether poetry and politics even belong together, because they're often so poorly married that we think of them as oil and water.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Thinking, Missing, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

  Tony Hayward

  Ocean, Oil, Water

  "BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill". Interview with Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

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• Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as it is - as become foreign to the public. So here goes: When government sports a surplus, this implies that the political pickpockets have stolen more funds than they can possibly dream of spending. The property is not theirs to keep! Conversely, when deficits are reported, this means that the kleptomaniacs have not been able to steal sufficient funds to cover their profligacy.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Dream, Mean

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• Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.

  Karen Chance

  Oil, Water, Wells

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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