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I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. -- Louis XIV
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. -- Edvard Munch
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. -- N. T. Wright
Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward. -- Mark Hart
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. -- Louis Farrakhan
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. -- Marie Curie
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. -- Tariq Ramadan
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. -- Orson Welles
Love cannot reconcile with deception -- Susan Abulhawa
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. -- Samuel Pepys
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. -- Pope Pius IX
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. -- Walter Scott
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him -- H. L. Mencken
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. -- Quentin Crisp
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. -- H. L. Mencken
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator. -- David Attenborough
There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast. -- Leo Buscaglia
The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity. -- Philippe Starck
I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. -- Tilda Swinton
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. -- Mark Twain
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. -- Charles Eames
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship. -- Mariella Frostrup
I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. -- Louis Farrakhan
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does. -- Sam Harris
Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s. -- Mariella Frostrup
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. -- H. P. Blavatsky
In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite. -- Ellen G. White
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. -- Tadao Ando
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. -- Roy H. Williams
When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself. -- Tullian Tchividjian
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. -- Louis Dudek
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. -- Stephen Fry
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. -- Ibrahim Babangida
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it. -- Reese Witherspoon
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying. -- Paul Auster
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation. -- Kevin Rudd
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ. -- Stephen Covey
In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile. -- Matt Chandler
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change -- Charles Caleb Colton
habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ... -- Margaret Deland
through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. -- William Carlos Williams
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government. -- Peter Kropotkin
When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile. -- Peter Kreeft
Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus... -- John Green
We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments. -- Virginia Woolf
Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. -- Stanislaw Lem
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions. -- David Hume
It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality. -- Christopher Moore
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business. -- Christian Lacroix
While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive. -- Bill Johnson
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. -- David Attenborough
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile. -- Robert K. Massie
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. -- George Santayana
Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations. -- Samuel Johnson
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. -- Jane Austen
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. -- Nhat Hanh
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. -- William Wordsworth
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. -- George Bernard Shaw
It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said. -- Luc de Clapiers
Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person. -- Pope John Paul II
I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile. -- Nhat Hanh
Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth. -- John Kador
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did -- Theodore Zeldin
Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile. -- Michael Sata
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge. -- Tariq Ramadan
I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them. -- George Washington
But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us. -- Robert Jeffress
I want to reconcile myself with heaven,I want to love, I want to pray,I want to believe in good. -- Mikhail Lermontov
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. -- Voltaire
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically. -- Maira Kalman
I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America. -- John Liu
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content. -- Richard Dawkins
The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion. -- H. L. Mencken
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time. -- Winston Churchill
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present. -- Douglas Adams
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. -- Owen Feltham
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. -- Ken MacLeod
It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working. -- Indira Gandhi
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile. -- Miroslav Volf
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him. -- Oscar Levant
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary... -- Marianne Williamson
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write. -- Lynne Tillman
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. -- Roger Zelazny
Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart. -- Maria V. Snyder
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. -- H. P. Blavatsky
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. -- William Hazlitt
I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. -- Barack Obama
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile. -- Rich Mullins
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile. -- Rich Mullins
I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe. -- Uwem Akpan
I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile. -- Loretta Ellsworth
To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe. -- Omar Khayyam
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. -- Joseph Stiglitz
You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth. -- Bryan Stevenson
It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism. -- Fulton J. Sheen
You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained. -- Suzette Boon
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life. -- Gretel Ehrlich
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. -- Robert Rainy
Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ. -- William Sloane Coffin
There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well - being generally; and, in the long range, the environment. -- Matthieu Ricard
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business. -- Calvin Coolidge
For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection. -- Thucydides

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