Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Rufus Wainwright

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Ronald Reagan

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Ronald Reagan

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Rodney Crowell

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Robert M. Pirsig

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Roseanne Barr

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Rod Serling

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

Rod Serling

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Robin Morgan

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Robert M. Hutchins

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

Robert M. Gates

power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success...

Satish Kumar

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

Sargent Shriver

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

Sargent Shriver

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Sargent Shriver

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Sargent Shriver

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Virgil

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

William Howard Taft

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

Wayne Dyer

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Wayne Dyer

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

Wayne Dyer

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

Wayne Dyer

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

Wayne Dyer

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

Wayne Dyer

Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

Wayne Dyer

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

Virginia Woolf

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Virginia Woolf

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

William Beveridge

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.