logo

Quotes About Peace

Qué vamos a hacer? - parece que exclamó Keitel- - ¡Hagan la paz, imbéciles! -le replicó Rundsted-. ¿Qué otra cosa pueden hacer?
~ Unknown
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Peace to thee, kind and selfish, vain and generous old heathen!—We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gentle hand out of the busy struggle of Vanity Fair.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
who can tell me that that calmness itself is not DESPAIR?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Je n'accepterai point d'endosser l'habit rouge du soldat ni qu'on m'envoie tirer sur mon ami français, allemand ou arabe dans une querelle dont le sens m'échappe : je me rebellerai plutôt. Je n'accepterai pas non plus de gaspiller mon temps et mon énergie à fabriquer un colifichet dont je sais que seul un imbécile en voudra : je me rebellerai plutôt.
~ William Morris
CHAPTER I: DISCUSSION AND BED
~ William Morris
Relaxation Revolution. In
~ Unknown
Abraham Lincoln, the closing lines of his first inaugural. It was an appeal for peace; he prayed that all of us would finally be moved by 'the better angels of our nature.
~ William R. Forstchen
For nearly all, there is a source of inner peace that comes with the belief that something of you goes on even if death is indeed the final ending. If not personal immortality, at least children and grandchildren or
~ William R. Forstchen
As Frederick the Great of Prussia is widely reputed to have said, "Diplomacy without force is like music without instruments.
~ Unknown
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
~ William Saroyan
There is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun.
~ William Saroyan
I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.
~ William Saroyan
I miss you of course and I think of you all the time. I am O.K., and even though I have never believed in wars - and know them to be foolish, even when they are necessary - I am proud that I am involved since so many others are, and this is what's happening. I do not recognize any enemy which is human, for no human being can be my enemy. Whoever he is, he is my friend. My quarrel is not with him, but with that unfortunate part of him which I seek to destroy in myself first.
~ William Saroyan
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
~ William Shakespeare
The rest, is silence.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
~ William Shakespeare
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.
~ William Shakespeare
Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.
~ William Shakespeare
And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
~ William Shakespeare
A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.
~ William Shakespeare
Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.
~ William Shakespeare
Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
~ William Shakespeare
My Crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content, A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.
~ William Shakespeare