#reconcile

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

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#entire #hidden #marriage #reconciles #sexes

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#bit #had #happily #i #myself

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#clash #colors #just #others #reconcile

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#dinner #everybody #good #how #reconciles

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources. ↗

— David Petraeus

#bad #bad guy #become #capture #continued

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#exchange #life #me #political #political life

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

#because #build #citizens #come #commonwealth