Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Legend

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

John Lehman

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

John Lennon

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

John Lennon

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

John Lennon

Peace and love are eternal

John Lennon

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

Imagine all the people living life in peace...

John Knowles

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

John Knowles

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

Jimmy Carter

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Jimmy Carter

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

Jimmy Carter

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

John Cage

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Francois Fenelon

How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

Francois Fenelon

Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.

Francois Fenelon

Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering.

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.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

Ovid

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]