Discords Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
— George Perkins Marsh
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In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart…
— George William Curtis
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We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of…
— Kate Chopin
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
— Aldo Leopold
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,…
— George Perkins Marsh
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
— Seneca the Younger
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He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /…
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us…
— James Freeman Clarke
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
— Alice James
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I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them…
— Lucy Larcom
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It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of…
— Pythagoras
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Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.
— Paul Brunton
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Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
— Robert Collyer
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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have…
— James A. Garfield
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I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you Not only for…
— Kemis Khan
Who Wrote These Discords Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Discords Quotes as follows: