Quotes About Disharmony

They were lovers who didn't love each other, and that made talking easier.

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

The relationship itself was a croquette, too much flour and milk patted smooth into something it wasn't.

Deep down inside me, a small voice says to me, something is out of tune.

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.

People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became difficult to hear even the birds or the breeze, and soon everyone stopped listening for them.

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

Society is at odds with itself.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

If the Emperor strayed from the path of virtue, All Under Heaven would fall into chaos. Even natural catastrophes might signify that disharmony had beset the universe. The existing dynasty would be seen to have lost the "Mandate of Heaven" by which it possessed the right to govern: rebellions would break out, and a new dynasty would restore the Great Harmony of the universe.19

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!

I want geometric streaks that cross in the air and form a disharmony that I understand. Pure 'it

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

So the peacemakers were bomb makers." "A lot of people these days are the opposite of what they say they are, and a lot of them probably don't even realize it. They're opposed to racism even as they act like racists. They're opposed to fascism, even as they act like fascists. The world's gone weird.

I felt in harmony with the disharmony of others, myself, and the world.

This is an era of violent peace.

So, creatively, I was doubly blessed: constant relocation and parental disharmony. Add to these two gifts the well-established fact that many of the world's greatest geniuses, both artistic and scientific, have been the product of serious maternal deprivation, and I am forced to the conclusion that if only my mother had been just a little more emotionally inadequate, I could have been HUGE.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

The world is an unjust place." 'Death's brother is the name that poets give to sleep.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.