Accord
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
To agree in pitch and tone.
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Accord Quotations
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.
Socrates
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
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.
Alexander Pope
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.
Thomas Paine
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
Christopher Alexander
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol
Accord Translations
accord in Danish is akkord
accord in Dutch is accoord, overeenstemming
accord in Italian is accordo, accordare, unisono, concordanza
accord in Latin is placitum
accord in Norwegian is forsone, enighet, innvilge, samsvar
accord in Portuguese is acordo
accord in Spanish is concordar, asonancia, concordar, otorgar
accord in Swedish is medge, bevilja
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