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Quotes About Peace

How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?
~ Bob Dylan
Mama, take this badge off of me I can't use it anymore It's getting dark, to dark for me to see I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door Mama, put my guns in the ground I can't shoot them anymore That long black cloud is com in' down I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
~ Bob Dylan
worried. Not so
~ Bob Mayer
Only dumb guys fight'
~ Bob Mayer
the definition of grace was to be at peace with what you did not know because you could not.
~ Bob Shacochis
We should just declare victory, end the wars and bring our troops home.
~ Bob Woodward
There was a single argument he made, Clapper said, that the North Koreans had not pushed back on during his 2014 visit. The United States, he had argued, has no permanent enemies. Look, he said, we had a war with Japan and Germany but now are friends with both. We had a war with Vietnam but now we are friends. Clapper had recently visited Vietnam. Even after a full-scale war, peaceful coexistence was possible.
~ Bob Woodward
If Kushner could not find a Middle East peace plan, "nobody can," Trump said. Kushner didn't.
~ Bob Woodward
We need to live in the now of life, it can't be about how much we suffered yesterday or what we might face tomorrow. It's about today. And today was good Willow in To Dance With Dolphins
~ Bonnie Leon
Yo no hablo de venganzas ni perdones, el olvido es la única venganza y el único perdón.
~ Borges
You come out; it is still dark. The door creaks, or perhaps you sneeze, or the snow crunches under your foot, and hares start up from the far cabbage patch and leap away, leaving the snow criss-crossed with tracks. In the distance dogs begin to howl and it takes a long time before the quieten down. The cocks have finished their crowing and have nothing left to say. Then dawn breaks.
~ Boris Pasternak
But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it for herself.
~ Boris Pasternak
How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even animals could do. As if she were carrying water from a well, or peeling potatoes. These reflections calmed him. A rare peace descended upon his soul. His mind stopped darting from subject to subject. He could not help smiling...
~ Boris Pasternak
Le soir venait. Il les vit et s'arrêta près d'eux pour ne pas les troubler.
~ Boris Vian
AÈ™ vrea s? m? retrag într-o gutuie. Ar mirosi frumos acolo. ?i, pe urm?, acolo aÈ™ fi liniÈ™tit.
~ Boris Vian
You may never make peace with your father. But you can always make peace with yourself.
~ Brad Meltzer
I do not believe our gentleman Boy Scout should obsess about combat. I do think he ought to be concerned about combat readiness. A man, however hard he works for peace, must always be ready for war.
~ Brad Miner
As the old saying went: People sleep peacefully in their beds only because rough men—and women, she was known to add—stand ready to do violence on their behalf. The two skills most necessary for a nation state to survive were its ability to keep secrets and covertly project force. Lose either ability and your country was doomed.
~ Brad Thor
He had long ago learned to take his peaceful moments where he could find them. Who knew what tomorrow would bring?
~ Brad Thor
The Russians wanted to enjoy the peace and prosperity of a civilized world, without the encumbrances of following any of its laws.
~ Brad Thor
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
~ Bram Stoker
The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.
~ Bram Stoker
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end! He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
~ Bram Stoker
I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.
~ Bram Stoker