Contention Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “The whole discord of this world consists in discords.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contention Discord This world Whole World
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to bring people together, but it's created big divisions. — Scott Rogowsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
