Conciliating Quotes & Sayings

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man. — R.L. LaFevers

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing. — Brandy Norwood

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all. — Nikolay Dobrolyubov

To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things. — Louise Penny

It's like copying truths from God's notebook, though we aren't always sure where to find this notebook or when it will be open. — Yoko Ogawa

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor. — Vincent Kartheiser

He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him — Nalini Singh

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. — Washington Irving

Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind. — William Harvey

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid. — Alan W. Watts

A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles. — Pawan Mishra

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change. — Eric Schmidt

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind. — Samuel Johnson

I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women are educated and have opportunities, and that happens when they live in cities and once they improve their economies, they no longer want to have eight kids. — Ian Bremmer

Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power. — Alexander Hamilton

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function. — John F. Kennedy

It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures, and drama. It has served as a center of union among differing backgrounds, cultures, and countries. It serves as the means of conciliating true friendship among persons, who, because of differences, must have otherwise remained at a perpetual distance. — Harry S. Truman

This world is full of kind and compassionate people just like you. — Debasish Mridha

I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love. — Mary Shelley

Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools. — Jesikah Sundin

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things. — Edmund Burke

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you. — John Jay Chapman

Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, and though there might not be much in her first appearance to captivate, there was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations. She was small of her age, with no glow of complexion, nor any other striking beauty; exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice; but her air, though awkward, was not vulgar, her voice was sweet, and when she spoke her countenance was pretty. Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram received her very kindly; and Sir Thomas, seeing how much she needed encouragement, tried to be all that was conciliating: but he had to work against a most untoward gravity of deportment; and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good-humoured smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. — Jane Austen

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally. — Gustav Stresemann