Top 100 Quotes About Discord
#1. The hordes of demonic activity at times can take advantage of those who are wounded by others in the body of Christ. When we allow any hurt we can be used of the enemy to sow discord into God's work and His body.
Greg Gordon
#2. Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes
#3. This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
Kavita Ramdas
#4. Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy and order, clothes itself with the name of justice and becomes like a seed of discord in the soul.
John Woolman
#5. Government is necessary to defend communities from miseries from within themselves; from the prevalence of intestine discord, mutual injustice and violence; the members of the society continually making a prey one of another, without any defence one from another.
Jonathan Edwards
#6. Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.
Mary Baker Eddy
#9. When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.
Gary Zukav
#10. We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
Chico Xavier
#11. "Something on a line, it's discord and rhyme - whatever, whatever, la la la - Mouth is alive, all running inside, and I'm hungry like the -" Warmth spread down my neck.
"It's actually,'I howl and I whine. I'm after you,' and not blah or whatever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#12. But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
Edward Gibbon
#13. Activating spiritual solutions means converting inner thoughts and feelings from discord and disharmony to love.
Wayne W. Dyer
#14. The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Bryan Procter
#15. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
Khalil Gibran
#16. Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.
Tehyi Hsieh
#17. No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#18. If it is peace you seek then you need only turn and walk away. Leave."
"To leave here is to arrive elsewhere. I cannot retreat from disorder, for it shall surely follow. Peace must be asserted where one finds oneself. Only when discord is resolved will there be peace.
Steven Erikson
#19. 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
#20. A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.
Lawrence Kushner
#21. Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
Anne Frank
#23. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between son and father. This
William Shakespeare
#24. Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.
Stefan Zweig
#25. Nature is harmony in discord.
Horace
#26. If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
Socrates
#27. Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.
Leigh Hunt
#28. 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
#29. The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.
Anthony Robbins
#30. False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.
Deborah Tannen
#32. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!
William Shakespeare
#34. What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#35. When a person doesn't understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn't search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn't understand.
Anton Chekhov
#36. This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.
Sir John Davies
#37. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood All partial Evil, universal Good. - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
Thomas H. Cook
#38. On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
Barack Obama
#39. What Paul is saying is that when we "do church," we are to do it in a proper and fitting manner. There should be order, not chaos. There should be sensibility, not insensitivity. There should be consistency, not discord. There should be guidance, not irresponsibility.
Robert H. Welch
#41. 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
#42. Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was a record of perpetual discord and inharmony.
Charles F. Haanel
#43. I suggest you apply whatever wisdom you have."
-Shevata, "Children of Discord" (upcoming novel)
C.C. Cole
#44. It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
Emanuel Celler
#45. Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
Noreena Hertz
#46. The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
Jane Fonda
#47. I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.
Eric Holder
#48. What this intensive mothering culture tells us is valuable is at discord with what really is valuable: Love your kids. Keep them safe. Accept them as they are. Then get out of their way.
Brigid Schulte
#49. Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
#50. You could foster happiness and add to our joy - or sow hurt and discord. It's a choice you make each day, each hour, and with each thought.
Cathy Marie Hake
#51. I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
Maya Angelou
#52. 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
#53. Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.
Bruce Lee
#54. When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars,
And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.
Horace
#55. And perhaps, if the adults here and around the world got it right, she'd never know anything but friendship and family and hope. Not war. Not racial discord. Not anger and distrust.
Nalini Singh
#56. All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord.
Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#57. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences
J.K. Rowling
#58. Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
Jean Giraudoux
#59. There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn't, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn't, and if only they could work out their differences, or keep the dim of discord to a minimum, I could have two whole parents.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#60. Doing brings happiness. T
oo much time for discussion - discord.
Theresa Sjoquist
#61. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#62. To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others.
Oscar Wilde
#63. Some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.
Mary Church Terrell
#64. The search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself.
John O'Donohue
#65. I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.
Christina Aguilera
#66. In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
each little discord here
Removed.
Emily Dickinson
#67. The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.
Tommy Douglas
#68. Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.
Samuel Johnson
#69. Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.
Libba Bray
#70. He replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with
Oscar Wilde
#71. Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
Samuel Johnson
#73. Why are there wars in the world? Why is there this constant international tension? What is the matter with the world? Why war and all the unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? According to this Beatitude, there is only one answer to these questions-sin. Nothing else; just sin.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#74. The fairest harmony springs from discord.
Heraclitus
#75. I'm seriously beginning to worry about you guys," Willow sighed from the arm chair and looked up from her laptop with discord, "Being asked out in the middle of a hurricane is not romantic. It's totally reckless and irresponsible."
"And totally hot," added Carmen.
Kristen Day
#76. Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.
John Milton
#77. There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5).
Thomas C. Oden
#78. When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
Anthony Trollope
#80. Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
Narayanananda Swami.
#82. In order that nothing may pass into a law but what is satisfactorily just, not less than three fifths of the Congress to be called a majority. He that will promote discord, under a government so equally formed as this, would have joined Lucifer in his revolt.
Thomas Paine
#83. The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.
Sharon Salzberg
#84. Marital discord, she decided, was like some sort of low-grade fever that threw the whole system just slightly out of whack so you couldn't manage to function at full capacity.
J.D. Robb
#85. When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
Marcus Aurelius
#86. No man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.
Anandi Gopal Joshi
#87. And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
Laini Taylor
#88. Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.
Emil Kraepelin
#89. 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
#90. We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
Alfred De Vigny
#91. Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.
Henry B. Eyring
#92. Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust
#94. So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
Alan Watts
#96. You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance
a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage
forget it.
Charlotte Bronte
#97. On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!
Robert Burns
#98. My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.
Miles Franklin
#99. The Cold War is a psychological game, that is dangerous and counterproductive in the extreme - it does not lead to a benevolent understanding among states - just hatred and discord, in this case, will be sown.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#100. Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
Sallust
