Accord Quotes - page 2

I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? (Hermann Hesse)
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. Anything short of that noospheric accord will continue to destroy the biosphere. View quote
Ken Wilber
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development... The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and to lead, to the advantage of all concerned. View quote
Henry Gantt
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science? View quote
Jerry Coyne
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. View quote
Ovid
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”. (Winston Churchill)
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. View quote
Socrates
When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other. View quote
Richard Adams
When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind. View quote
Jean-Georges Noverre
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy.... The magic of everyday things. View quote
Joanne Harris
It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord. View quote
Bao Dai
In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product. View quote
Bob Ney
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment. View quote
Michael Tippett
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. (Thomas Paine)
Our business is to help get everything possible done to make sure the "last" chance for a peaceful development of the revolution, to help by the presentation of our programme, by making clear its national character, its absolute accord with the interests and demands of a vast majority of the population. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror. View quote
Stephanie Zacharek
When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
None of the free [ a. o. his first religious] imaginative pictures that I painted at this time [c.1909] or later, had any kind of model, or even a clearly conceived idea. It was quite easy for me to imagine a work right down to its smallest details, and in fact my preconceptions were usually far more beautiful than the painted outcome: I became the copyist of the idea. Therefore I liked to avoid thinking about a picture beforehand, all I needed was a vague idea of luminescences of colour. The work then developed of its own accord under my hands. View quote
Emil Nolde