Discordance Quotes

#1. If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another ...

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language.

Patti Smith

#3. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato

#5. You could only anticipate certain scenarios and prepare to deal with each. Success came to those who best reacted as the unexpected occurred in discordance with those plans.

Alex Albrinck

#6. Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Charles Lyell

#7. We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil

#8. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#9. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

#10. Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.

Junius Williams

#11. My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#12. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

Sir Mix-a-Lot