Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Bob Dylan

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Brian Tracy

Order is heaven's first law. Order is earth's first law, too.

Brian Tracy

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Brenda Ueland

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

Brad Pitt

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Juvenal

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

Juvenal

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Kenneth Branagh

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

Elliott Abrams

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Alanis Morissette

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

Black Kettle

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

Blaise Pascal

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Dean Rusk

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Dean Koontz

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Daniel Handler

The world is quiet here.

Arthur Hertzberg

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

Arthur Henderson

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Bayard Rustin

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

Bayard Rustin

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

Bayard Taylor

Peace the offspring is of Power.

Barbara Deming

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.