Quotes About Discord

Thus the pure archetypal harmonies, and their echoes, the musical consonances, are generated by dividing the circle by means of construable, regular polygons; wheras the 'unspeakable' polygons produce discordant sounds, and are useless in the scheme of the universe.

she hated everything her parents loved

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The story of America is...one of slow, often unsteady steps forward. If we expect the trumpets of a given era to sound unwavering notes, we will be disappointed, for the past tells us that politics is an uneven symphony.

Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.

Intergroup animosity need not be about anything,

El país, que nació con un atraso de siglos para construir un régimen de libertades cívicas y bienestar económico, perdería décadas preciosas en una discordia civil que a la postre lo conduciría a la bancarrota, el descrédito, la violencia interna, la guerra exterior y el desmembramiento del territorio.

Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.

however, Greenspan remained firmly opposed.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

Wars are being fought every day, even where armies are not on the march. And wars within wars. And wars behind wars.

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Good God, why had someone not told him? Why had Harry not mentioned it? Oh, by the way, my sister is remaining here indefinitely to ruin our peace.

disidente en general»

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Sometimes nature cannot stand us. And Sometimes we cannot stand our own nature.

Las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.