When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Imagine having love for someone and being told, "You're not allowed to experience that love because you're not allowed to experience pain."… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Neither of youIn the couple have to change in order to be with the other. Whether that's having sex with other people… — Liza Monroy Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very,… — David Hare Copy Share Image
“To reconcile ourselves with one another, we must release our judgments and make peace with the fact that we are one. This… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things.… — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going… — Thaksin Shinawatra Copy Share Image
I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my… — Corey Hart Copy Share Image
When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind,… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
