Discords Quotes

#1. There are no discords in my being.
Being is peace.

Myrtle Fillmore

#2. The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

Seneca The Younger

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

George Perkins Marsh

#5. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. TO BE "THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it" was the primary function of the Crusades,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Perfection can be overdone; a rift in a lute relieves melodious monotony, and when discords cease to amuse, one can always have the instrument mended or buy a banjo.

Robert W. Chambers

#9. It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

#10. Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Robert Collyer

#11. Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

Kate Chopin

#13. In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James

#15. Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a symphony of cats to walk along them. Senseless discords and a horrible disorder all the way ... We need no barbarians from outside; they're on the premises, all the time.

Aldous Huxley

#16. Our unending discords are the ransom of our freedom.

Rene Girard

#17. He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#18. I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Lucy Larcom

#19. The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

Charles Baudelaire

#20. The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.

Wallace Stevens

#21. The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

Aldo Leopold

#22. Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Charles Dickens

#23. I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

Virginia Woolf

#24. Somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out the higher excellencies in another, and so they re-acted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#25. The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#26. That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Paul Brunton

#27. I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

George William Curtis

#28. A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon

#29. Number two is just the leader for the rest of the leaders

Eric Jerome Dickey

#30. The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

Tim LaHaye

#31. Don't make a deal with the devil.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. The Giant rested back in his chair. "You've some stories left," he said. " I can smell them on your skin.

Brian Patten

#33. One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

Harry Emerson Fosdick