Reconcile Quotes - Page 7

• We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Light, Order

  22 Copy quote

• Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Destiny, Space

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Two, Half

  10 Copy quote

• . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

  David Hare

  Gun, Car, Faces

  33 Copy quote

• Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

  Lanford Wilson

  Christian, Struggle, Commitment

  8 Copy quote

• What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

  John Locke

  Humanity, Tradition, Customs

  John Locke, Alfred Howard (1834). “The Beauties of Locke, Consisting of Selections from His Philosophical, Moral, and Theological Works”, p.62

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

  Thucydides

  Powerful, Cities, Stronger

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, History, Secret

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.449

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he wills repentance. But experience shows that this will, for the repentance of those whom he invites to himself, is not such as to make him touch all their hearts. Still, it cannot be said that he acts deceitfully; for though the external word only renders, those who hear it, and do not obey it, inexcusable, it is still truly regarded as an evidence of the grace by which he reconciles men to himself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Grace

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth”, Jazzybee Verlag

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Years, Monk

  7 Copy quote

• It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

  Maira Kalman

  Reality, Impossible, Hours

  "Maira Kalman's show at Jewish Museum". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Dad, Father

  4 Copy quote

• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Summer, Sports, Spring

  7 Copy quote

• Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Feelings, Unseen, Done

  4 Copy quote

• Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children, Kids, Acceptance

  5 Copy quote

• Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Voice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.160, Routledge

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Trying, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.78, 谷月社

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.

  Uwem Akpan

  Book, Kissing, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

  Omar Khayyam

  Kindness, Heart, Deeds

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Two, Nuts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

  William J. Clinton

  Curves, Two, Childhood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

  Nhat Hanh

  Hate, Because I Can, Starting Anew

  Source: plumvillage.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.

  Moshe Arens

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Oil And Water, Mad, Poetry

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Sweat

  4 Copy quote