When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

- Georges Pompidou

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

- Mariella Frostrup

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

- N. T. Wright

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

- Orson Welles

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.

- Rich Mullins