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Quotes About Discord

the bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.
~ Edmund Burke
The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity
~ Albert Einstein
Through it all, they kept pecking at one another, as is too often the case with fellows in misfortune.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves
~ Alexander Hamilton
What dire offense from amorous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
~ Alexander Pope
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...
~ Alexander Pope
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
Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.
~ Alexandra Robbins
It is shades that clash, not colors.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.
~ Judy Woodruff
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
~ Keith Jarrett
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.
~ Max Heindel
Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
~ T. C. Boyle
There's conflict in every story.
~ Riki Lindhome
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
There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.
~ Judd Apatow
Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.
~ Rene Girard
Praising and blessing dissolves all negativity, so praise and bless your enemies. If you curse your enemies, the curse will come back to harm you. If you praise and bless them you will dissolve all negativity and discord, and the love of the praising and blessings will return to you. As you praise and bless, you will feel yourself shift into a new frequency with the feedback of good feelings.
~ Rhonda Byrne
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?
~ Richard Flanagan
In the creature's howling, Els heard the roots of music—the holy society of small discord.
~ Richard Powers
Ovunque, nella mia vita, io abbia incontrato la religione, ho trovato la discordia, il tentativo di un individuo o di un gruppo di dominare un altro in nome di Dio.
~ Richard Wright
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
~ E. M. Bounds