Quotes About Peace

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

During a Middle East peace talk you insulted the Iraqi ambassador." "He was a pervert who liked little girls.

It's a complicated job that requires unlikely alliances. There are people who don't want to be seen with me and vice versa that I still need to talk with to understand our community or maintain the peace.

Because it was a tool of death," she said, "and this is a place of purity, peace, and harmony.

There was something about driving, about putting his troubles in the rearview mirror and looking at a ribbon of asphalt stretching out into infinity in front of him, that cleared his head, bringing him peace and perspective.

Maybe so, but it comes down to this: Do you want the guard to live with the guilt of killing a man? Or do you want to give him a chance to make peace with it?

We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don't believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.

When a life ebbs away, it is peaceful and painless.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

PROVERBS 3:25–26 I pray that in righteousness my son shall be established. That he shall be far from oppression, for he shall not fear. And from terror, for it shall not come near him. ISAIAH 54:14

If we don't blow ourselves up, the future will be wonderful.

She wanted this feeling of home to settle inside her until it gave her the sweetest of dreams.

Peace was a more dignified version of defeat.

Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.

By remembering that what you cannot undo, you must accept. And in accepting…you will find the grace to forgive yourself.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better.

It is often said that if you have a room with a view, you will feel peaceful and relaxed, but if the room is a caravan hurtling down a steep and twisted road, and the view is an eerie mountain range racing backward away from you, while chilly mountain winds sting your face and toss dust into your eyes, then you will not feel one bit of peace and relaxation.