Quotes About Discord

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Man's the bad child of the universe

denn die Deutschen, wenn sich irgendwas auftut, zerfallen immer gleich wieder in zwei Teile.

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5).

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

The neighbors hate me.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

We've always been enemies, Flay. And we always will be.

Pretty small island if everybody fighting everybody.

Urizen is the chief villain always, because Urizen is not merely intellect; he is also personality, identity, the Spectre. As soon as man begins to think, he forms a notion of who he is. If man were entirely body or emotions, he would have no conception of his identity, consequently he could never become unbalanced like Nijinsky, Lawrence, Van Gogh. It is Urizen who starts the trouble. The Bible recounts the same legend when it ascribes the first discord in the universe to Lucifer and his pride

I thought, This is where the day curdles.

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the thick, the broken, the enduring of our long history, of our tumultuous and varied day. There is always more to be understood; a discord to be listened for; a falsity to be reprimanded.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. The

Every term of opprobrium that Álvares hurled at Magellan strengthened

Columbus and Fonseca despised one another and fought bitterly.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Fear and anger, the two emotions that most people came to him to reduce—emotions that he'd worked so hard to overcome in his own life—were fuel for politicians. Maybe candidates and congressmen thought that sowing discord among countrymen, even family members, was an unfortunate type of collateral damage. Maybe they didn't think about it at all.

La República restaurada no fue el horizonte de paz y democracia imaginado por los liberales triunfantes, sino el terreno de una nueva discordia interna que se resolvió con la llegada al poder de Porfirio Díaz

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