Like Oil And Water Quotes

#1. Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

Anita Roddick

#2. I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.

James Blake

#3. Love and magic are like oil and water
they just don't mix.

Jasper Fforde

#4. The flesh of her butt jiggled like water-filled beach balls, oil drops dangling from a soupspoon, oversized Jell-O dessert cups.

Dennis Vickers

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

Jim Butcher

#6. You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.

Robbie Lawler

#7. If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.

Craig Groeschel

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

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#9. The professional ideal of "detached concern" among medical practitioners represents this blend of closeness and distance.1 Many physicians believe it is a prerequisite for effective patient care. But, much like oil and water, detachment and concern do not mix easily.

Christina Maslach

#10. You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Gautama Buddha

#11. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

#12. The various torments of life worked in shifts so that one was always on duty. Thus was human misery extracted day and night like water and oil are pulled from the earth. Thus was the toll inflicted, the price one paid for being unwittingly born.

Hugh Howey

#13. My bones whisper to my blood; my sleep deceives me.

Theodore Roethke

#14. I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Lucinda Williams

#15. I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog ...

Vangelis

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

Karen Chance

#17. Watching them was like watching water and oil do the impossible.

N.R. Walker

#18. 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

David Remnick

#19. A brick could be crushed, mixed with water, and drunk like a sports drink. And hey, with no bromated vegetable oil, it's healthier than Gatorade.

Jarod Kintz

#20. I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

Sheryl Sandberg

#21. We seem to be oil and water."
"More like gasoline and a match.

Mercy Celeste

#22. Should I have held them down and poured boiling water over them until they talked? Really, I'd like your expert advice.
Of course not. You would use boiling oil.

Kresley Cole

#23. We're like oil and water, only someone put the oil on the bottom and then dumped the water in, so I'm forever trying to get over him while simultaneously going through him as the pieces of me try to connect on the other side.

Lily Paradis

#24. The truth can't hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.

Kenneth Eade

#25. The two of them were like oil and water. Her older sister was forever stuck in surrogate mommy role. But Viviana had never needed, nor wanted a replacement mother. Fate had seen fit to remove her biological mother, so she figured that was the way it was supposed to be.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#26. I find it magnificent how beau-tiful, loose ends find each other in the world if one only waits with de-cent patience, resilience, and quite blind strength.

J.D. Salinger

#27. Politics and friendships are like oil and water, you need a really good blender to make them work.

Kush Desai

#28. If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?'

Trick Daddy

#29. You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.

Gudjon Bergmann