Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Presley

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Elizabeth George

With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

Elizabeth George

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My job is to receive. you give me Your peace. My job is to take it. You lead me to Your still waters. My role is to follow. You extend Your hand. My role is to take hold. My I enjoy Your presence and the tranquility of the still waters where You pour out your promise of peace. Amen.

Elizabeth Gilbert

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

Judith Orloff

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

Kathe Kollwitz

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

Kathe Kollwitz

One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

Karen Nussbaum

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Joseph Conrad

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Joseph Conrad

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Cook

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

Leonard Cohen

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

Langston Hughes

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

John Keble

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

John Kenneth Galbraith

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Lois McMaster Bujold

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Livy

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

Livy

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Livy

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Livy

Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Louis D. Brandeis

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Lord Byron

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Malcolm Forbes

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.