Accord Quotes
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Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel. (Quote by - Chanakya)
Islam exhorts men to respect and honor women. The status of the wife is so respected in Islam that it is not obligatory for her to do household chores. She may do them of her own accord. But if her husband forces her to do household work, he will have to account for his conduct in the hereafter. (Quote by - Anon)
The two sides reached an accord to pay 10 million (euros) for each of the 426 HIV-infected children and 20 mothers who are also contaminated with HIV. (Quote by - Driss Lagha)
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. (Quote by - Cicero)
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. (Quote by - Joseph Ratzinger)
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another. (Quote by - Richard Perle)
In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord. (Quote by - Demetrius)
The employees have been presented a proposal to reach an accord. This is in the hands of the law. We will be present throughout the process and we hope that this can be resolved. (Quote by - Billy Sanez)
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
Without a free trade agreement, no one, not national or foreign firms, will invest. We have many things that need to get done, and all those who oppose the free trade accord need to tell me how the heck we're going to do them. (Quote by - Augustine Faucher)
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord(Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Mr. Gretzky is very capable of dealing with this story on his own accord and we see nothing in this story that requires any Olympic response at this time. (Quote by - Michael Chambers)
When people that are making $150,000 a year are complaining about having to drive the Accord on the weekends and keeping the thermostat at 75, the price of oil's having an impact. (Quote by - John Norris)
Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get in accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
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(Quote by - Thomas Paine)
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. (Quote by - James F. Cooper)
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day. (Quote by - C.S. Forester)
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. (Quote by - Vincent van Gogh)
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have. (Quote by - Hallesby)
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. (Quote by - Walter Martin)
Lewis goes on to suggest that quasi-realism is a kind of fictionalism, and it is here that our accord comes under strain. I do not think it is. (Quote by - Simon Blackburn)
The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. (Quote by - John Philip Sousa)
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. (Quote by - Socrates)
To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns. (Quote by - Frank Gaffney)
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law – i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man(Quote by - William Howard Taft)
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged(Quote by - Ovid)
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. (Quote by - Alberto Santos Dumont)
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
You could arguably get just as well or better fuel economy with a four-cylinder gasoline Accord for $8,000 to $10,000 less. (Quote by - Anthony Pratt)
One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors. (Quote by - Jacques Chirac)
What that trade pact does to our farmers is criminal. If I become president, I will change it in at least seven areas, otherwise there won't be a trade accord with the United States. (Quote by - Otton Solis)
Using this image of raising the flag is an image that says 'look, we want a strong Saskatchewan in a strong Canada, and a chunk of getting there is a solid energy accord to develop the resources of Saskatchewan,(Quote by - Lorne Calvert)
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. (Quote by - Edward Tufte)
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. (Quote by - Seneca)
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. (Quote by - John Dryden)
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. (Quote by - Johann Sebastian Bach)
They should have given us more time to reach a satisfying accord with the Russians. (Quote by - Ali Larijani)
The challenge to the president is therefore important because if he does not want to give some acknowledgment to the protest, if he does not want to accord respect to the congressional Black Caucus, the civil rights leadership, the fraternal leadership, and those mainline leaders, then he's still faced with this group, which is posing him the same challenge in terms of public policy. (Quote by - Ronald Walters)
If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. (Quote by - Alexander Wiley)
We are all of 1 accord Strike all our souls the same notechord It is only God whom we'll call Lord not those of butcher stock or warlords. (Quote by - O. Anna Niemus)
Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it. (Quote by - Barry Long)
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. (Quote by - John Clayton)
A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
The Ministerial Alliance was in accord on this. They were all for it and I hope it can happen every year. (Quote by - Gloria McEnroe)
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. (Quote by - Nikolai Gogol)
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I. (Quote by - Alan Gulick)
Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
It was a properly designed project, done in accord with all plans and permits. (Quote by - Anthony Nicodemo)
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own. (Quote by - Anthony Kennedy)
A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proce. (Quote by - Stan Laurel)
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said (Quote by - "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul. (Quote by - Robert Grosseteste)
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. (Quote by - John Cage)
If we had accepted the accord as it is, CAFTA would already be in place. But we are still debating. (Quote by - Enrique Lacs)
