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Quotes About Discord

One also suspects that the couple clashed as a result of their very similarity.
~ Ron Chernow
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
~ Salman Rushdie
Wherever there's a man, there's trouble.
~ Alice Walker
nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
~ Joe Queenan
There's a force that is fracturing all of us.
~ Johann Hari
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
We can argue about it in hell.
~ E. Lockhart
Wars and alarums unto nations wide.
~ Edmund Spenser
Eris, the Goddess of Discord and sister of Ares, presides over separatio. It was she who came uninvited to a marriage on Olympus and flung into the midst of the gathering an apple inscribed "to the fairest." Thus she brought about the judgment of Paris. Comparisons are odious and comparison is what the golden apple provoked. To determine what is "more" and what is "most" requires and leads to judgments.
~ Edward F. Edinger
His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
~ Anonymous
And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords.
~ Anonymous
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
~ Anonymous
He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.
~ Anonymous
interests result in direct and indirect opposition.
~ Anthony J. Marsella
Writers should provoke disagreement.
~ V. S. Naipaul
I know the pundits don't agree with me.
~ Jan Brewer
People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
Balance, it's what distinguishes people from a mob.
~ Frank Herbert
I let the most antagonistic proposals of my nature gradually come to agreement without violence. Suppressing the dialogue in oneself really amounts to stopping the development of life. Everything leads to harmony. The fiercer and more persistant the discord had been, the broader reconciliations blossoms.
~ Andre Gide
She is talking about the birds, awakening in harmony and bedding down in discord.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Americans' "fatal tendency of disunion.
~ Sarah Vowell
Nothing damages the good order of a house hold More than a feud that festers underneath The surface among its master's faithful servants. His commands do not, like well tuned music, Echo back to him in the form of promptly Executed work; no, all is jarring Discord, self-will; in the confusion he Himself's confused and scolds away to no Avail. And
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Given the lives and human suffering at stake, and the internal discord that was ripping the United States apart, it is hard not to conclude that, of all of Richard Nixon's actions in a lifetime of politics, this was the most reprehensible.
~ John A. Farrell