Uncongenial Quotes

#1. Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#2. We did not create an environment uncongenial to our species, nature did.

Thomas Ligotti

#3. One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.

William Arrowsmith

#5. In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#6. Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

Muhammad Iqbal

#7. A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#8. Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

John Dewey

#9. I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein

#10. Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.

Charles Dickens

#11. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. Living in a small town ... is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.

Joyce Dennys

#13. Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

James Allen

#14. Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

E.M. Delafield

#15. A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.

Edith Wharton

#16. One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Myrtle Reed

#17. If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

Alexander McQueen

#19. Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

Franz Kafka

#20. If wishes were fishes, we'd all throw nets.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen Hawking

#22. Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

Jim Lehrer

#23. We don't know much about our hero before 325 BCE-he just sort of materialized out of thin air like a face-melting UFO or a vengeful, homicidal rainbow, but apparently he had some serious beef with people in charge ...

Ben Thompson

#24. I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

Selena Gomez

#25. Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

Mahalia Jackson

#26. The leader's (Jeff Denson's) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson's haunting vocals

Bill Milkowski

#27. There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

Viktor Yushchenko

#28. No one can say where a book comes from, least of all the person who writes it. Books are born out of ignorance, and if they go on living after they are written, it's only to the degree that they cannot be understood.

Paul Auster