Discord Quotes - Page 4

• Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

  Austin O'Malley

  Charity, Notes, Resolve

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• So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, Justice, Long

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.

  Catherine Ponder

  People, Soul, Needs

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• Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

  Samuel Johnson

  Easy

  Samuel Johnson (18??). “Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia”

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• To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

  Mason Cooley

  Wise, Wisdom, Two

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• I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Errors, St Francis Of Assisi

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Home, Community

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• Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Principles, Littles, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.247

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• When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self, Return, Gains

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• Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stronger, Music Love, Grew

  Edgar Allan Poe, John Ward Ostrom, Burton Ralph Pollin, Jeffrey A. Savoye (2008). “The collected letters of Edgar Allan Poe”

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• ...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Lying, Ideas

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.

  Aleister Crowley

  Organization, Ideas, Light

  "Magick Book IV: Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley. Appendix VI: A few principal rituals - Liber Reguli, 1936.

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• When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.

  Anthony Trollope

  Voice, People, Together

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.3112, e-artnow

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• Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Littles, Strange

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

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• Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.

  Leigh Hunt

  Dwelling, Perfect, Touching

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.2

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  Natascha McElhone

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.

  Samuel Gompers

  Holiday, Men, Race

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• The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
  And far beyond the discords of the wind.

  Wallace Stevens

  Swans, Wind, Soul

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.4, Vintage

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• What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Pain, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in religious opinion. Time has at length revealed the true remedy. Every relaxation of narrow and rigorous policy, wherever it has been tried, has been found to assuage the disease.

  James Madison

  Religious, Blood, Differences

  James Madison (1819). “Religious Freedom. A memorial and remonstrance drawn by ... J. Madison, late President of the United States, ... against the general assessment in “a Bill establishing provision for the teachers of the Christian religion, presented to the General Assembly”, p.10

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• That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Stars, Evil

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Harmony, Backgrounds, Attractiveness

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these virtues is certainly in the kingdom of God. By contrast, all who deal in unrighteousness, in discord, and in death-bearing gloom have taken their stand in the kingdom of the devil, in hell and in lifelessness. It is by these tokens that the kingdom of God or of the devil is recognized.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Taken, Justice

  "Conferences".

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