Conciliate Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
— George Grenville
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We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing…
— Ferdinand Marcos
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike…
— William Robertson Smith
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Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly…
— George Washington
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything…
— Hesketh Pearson
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God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he…
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.
— Mark Gevisser
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The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of…
— John Quincy Adams
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Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or…
— Jessica Fellowes
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible…
— George Grenville
Who Wrote These Conciliate Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Conciliate Quotes as follows: