Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richie Havens

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Tillie Olsen

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Lewis Mumford

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing...

Lee Myung-bak

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

Lawrence Durrell

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

Neil Sheehan

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

Marcus Aurelius

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

Marcus Aurelius

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Marcus Aurelius

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Marcus Aurelius

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Thomas a Kempis

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Thomas a Kempis

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Thomas a Kempis

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

Thomas a Kempis

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

Thomas A. Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Shel Silverstein

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.

Sigmund Freud

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Sigmund Freud

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Sigmund Freud

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Shirley MacLaine

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

Shaun White

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

Serj Tankian

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Stevie Wonder

Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away

Stevie Wonder

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

Sun Tzu

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

Sun Tzu

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

Robert Browning

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.