Discordant Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along…
— Rex Ingamells
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things
— Heraclitus
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it…
— Plato
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the…
— Edmund Burke
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Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western…
— Thomas Sowell
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various…
— William Davenant
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I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.
— Frank Laubach
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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic…
— David Frum
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of…
— Vance Havner
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The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
— Frank X. Barron
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
— Alan Dean Foster
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling…
— William Wordsworth
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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I…
— Edward Weston
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There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people…
— Spencer W. Kimball
Who Wrote These Discordant Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Discordant Quotes as follows: