Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.

Carl Sagan

It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

Byron Katie

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"

Byron Katie

We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.

Byron Katie

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Byron Katie

My experience is the opposite.

Byron Katie

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

Carter Heyward

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Carlos Santana

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

Carlos Santana

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Catherine the Great

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

Robin Cook

We want the peace talks to resume on all tracks as soon as possible,

Chogyam Trungpa

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

Chip Conley

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Chip Conley

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Chester W. Nimitz

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Cheryl James

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Chen Shui-bian

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Charlize Theron

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Charles Horton Cooley

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Bill McKibben

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Kurt Vonnegut

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

William Shakespeare

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

William Shakespeare

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

Ehud Barak

There is no peace without a price, just as there is no peace at any cost,

Joyce Kilmer

There is no peace to be taken/ With poets who are young,/ For they worry about the wars to be fought/ and the songs that must be sung.

William Shakespeare

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.