Discord Quotes - Page 2

• When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.

  Anton Chekhov

  War, Should, Feels

  "Letters Of Anton Chekhov To His Family And Friends With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Bowels, Worms, Commonwealth

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  William Shakespeare

  Guitar, Degrees, Strings

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 109

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• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Sweet, Adversity

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.54, Discovery House

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• Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Nature, Men, Feet

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.36, New York : C. Scribner

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• Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

  Khalil Gibran

  Faith, Science, Religion

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• The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to which belong war, hatred, impatience and discord of every kind. The thorough study of water therefore signifies the end of monopolies, the end of all domination in the truest sense of the word and the start of a socialism arising from the development of individualism in its most perfect form.

  Viktor Schauberger

  War, Perfect, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.27, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mind, Aikido, Defeated

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• When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Father, Men, Wife

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.50, Vintage

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• Discord gives a relish for concord.

  Publilius Syrus

  Giving, Relish

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• It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.

  Claire Danes

  Drama, Successful, Thinking

  Press conference, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

  Louise Colet

  Manners

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 108), 1886.

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• Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

  Edmund Spenser

  Lays

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser”

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• What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Desire, Language

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• Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Dust, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Money, War

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.331, e-artnow

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• When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy, Want, Arguing

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• What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

  Anne Frank

  Christian, Responsibility, Justice

  Diary, 22 May 1944

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• False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.

  Deborah Tannen

  Heart, Dichotomy

  Deborah Tannen (1998). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, Random House Incorporated

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• If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

  Socrates

  Silence, Doe, Silent

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• So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Negativity, Darkness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

  Dan Simmons

  Leadership, Political, Age

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.607, Spectra

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• The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

  Tacitus

  Liberty, Used, No Hope

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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