Discordant Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

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
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things — Heraclitus
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
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
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
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
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
I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting. — Frank Laubach
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
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. — Leonardo da Vinci
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements. — Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities. — Frank X. Barron
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
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
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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: