Conciliating Quotes

#1. The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Gustav Stresemann

#2. Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving

#3. I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love.

Mary Shelley

#4. An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

#5. It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

John Jay Chapman

#6. Human selfishness being what it is, almost everyone kept the pleasant task for themselves.

Steven Pinker

#7. It was more difficult not to
understand than to understand.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.

Edward St. Aubyn

#9. From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure; after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.

Luke Rhinehart

#10. Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is ... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell ... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

Adam Leipzig

#11. A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.

Vladimir Putin

#12. Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch