#reconcile

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#bloody #effort #even #every #forms

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

#been #career #could #easy #especially

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#antagonism #concerned #couples #directly #family

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#einstein #general #general relativity #mechanics #only

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#becomes #concepts #his #longer #lost

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

#bit #had #happily #i #myself

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

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

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