Quotes About Peace

At night, returning from work, Anil would slip out of her sandals and stand in the shallow water, her toes among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her. She would stand there for a while, then walk wet-footed to bed.

Small gestures were enough for him. One bullet ended the war.

The war is not over everywhere, she was told. The war is over. This war is over. The war here.

You did not speak for some time. You felt safer that way.

It is a strange time, the end of a war." "Yes. A period of adjustment.

Dinlenmek,dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmektir.

During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed. So our job becomes to keep peace with enemy camps, eliminate the chaos at the end of Jacobean tragedies, and with 'the mercy of distance' write the histories.

Succinct histories tell us something—that anything peaceful has a troubled past.

Dinlenmek, dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmekti.

She finds rest as opposed to sleep the truly pleasurable state.

She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.

But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by. I

On the contrary, to lay down the sword and use our labor and national treasure for the peaceful reconstruction so desperately needed at home and abroad is not to become a weak nation but a truly great one.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

Sometimes the best way to show your respect for something is to just leave it alone.

You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.

Lush green forests, chirping birds and the gentle beast... that's what the shoot for 'Haathi... ' is like every single day. A life-changing experience which not only is beautiful at the face of it but the soul too.

I am enjoying my single life and seriously have no complaints.