Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florynce Kennedy

You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

Florynce Kennedy

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Florence Nightingale

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Herbert Hoover

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Henry Miller

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

Henry Miller

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Henry Miller

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.

Helen Keller

The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Helen Keller

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Cat Stevens

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Cassandra Clare

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

George Eliot

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Taiwan-China relations will be peaceful for a long time to come,

D. H. Lawrence

Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace.

It will be a peaceful demonstration. We will come out with flowers. We will tell people the truth.

It is really very shocking. This is a peaceful place.

It is really peaceful and serene in the summertime.

Michael Chapman

It's a peaceful resolution of every pending issue.

It's a sad day for the peace process.

It makes sense there would be a letdown after impeachment. People are tired of scandals and want peace and quiet.

Gerry Adams

Everyone who wants the peace process to work will welcome this significant development,

Everyone with a stake in peace must do their part.

It's one of the most serene, peaceful places you can imagine,

Janet Flanner

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

Euripides

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Ernest Thompson Seton

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

Ernest Bevin

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Muriel Rukeyser

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Moby

Let peace and beauty reign.

Frank Herbert

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.