Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Carroll

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

John Dryden

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

John Locke

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

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...

Jimmy Buffett

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

Emmet Fox

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

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.