Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
~By Xun Zi ~
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
~By Elvis Costello ~
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
~By Elizabeth Fishel ~
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
~By George Washington ~
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
~By Corita Kent ~
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
~By Artur Rodzinski ~
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
~By Augustus Baldwin Longstreet ~
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
~By Sallust ~
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
~By Georges Bataille ~
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
~By Sallust ~
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
~By Khaleda Zia ~
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
~By Alejo Carpentier ~
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.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
~By Jose Marti ~
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
~By Norman McLaren ~
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~By James Allen ~
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.
~By Stephen Stills ~
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.
~By Frank Bruno ~
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
~By Eisaku Sato ~
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
~By Naomi Watts ~
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
~By Dennis Banks ~
I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
~By Christopher Alexander ~
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
~By James Allen ~
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
~By Max Bill ~
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
~By Leni Riefenstahl ~
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
~By Laurence Housman ~
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
~By Jean Genet ~
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
~By Paul Simon ~
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
~By Johannes Sebastian Bach ~
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
~By Alvar Aalto ~
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
~By George Shearing ~
We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
~By William Wordsworth ~
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
~By Sai Baba ~
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Peace, unity and harmony!
~By Cathy Freeman ~
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
~By Tina Turner ~
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
~By Adrian Smith ~
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
~By Carl Lewis ~
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
~By Lech Walesa ~
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
~By Xun Zi ~
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
~By Thomas Merton ~
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
~By Albert Camus ~
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
~By Emma Goldman ~
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
~By Josiah Royce ~
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
Truth is inner harmony.
~By Walther Rathenau ~
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
~By John C. Ransom ~
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Virtue is harmony.
~By Pythagoras ~
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