Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love, peace and love!

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.

Richard Carlson

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.

Toni Morrison

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Thomas Keneally

It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.

Thomas Adams

The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

Victor Hugo

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Robert Frost

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

Rita Mae Brown

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Richard E. Byrd

I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!

Rene Descartes

Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.

Thornton Wilder

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Thomas More

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Thomas Paine

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

Thomas Paine

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Huxley

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Thomas de Quincey

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

Rumi

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Tom Peters

Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

Tom Lehrer

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

Vaclav Havel

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

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.