Quotation Explorer - 'Accord'

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. - Victor Hugo
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. - Nikolai Gogol
Just because everyone agrees that something is true doesn't make it so; everyone was in accord for thousands of years, saying the world was flat, the sun revolved around the earth, but everyone was wrong. - Aaron Dennis
Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that. - Steve Maraboli
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature. - Seneca
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture - Jeanette Winterson
They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it. - Anaïs Nin
ACCORD, n. Harmony. - Ambrose Bierce
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. - Sun-tzu
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. - Oscar Wilde
I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are. - Kamand Kojouri
A smile is only complete when the face and the whole body is in one accord - Temitayo A
His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn’t care. ‘He’s alive!’ Blue said again ‘He’s breathing!’ ‘I can’t see him breathing. - Herbie Brennan
Mediocrity is the companion of passivity and will not heed the call of great things. Courage is the companion of sacrifice and cannot help but heed the call of great things. And we are left of our own accord to choose one or the other. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord. - Lawrence Shorter
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