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Quotes About Peace

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)
~ William Shakespeare
She sat like patience on a monument smiling at grief.
~ William Shakespeare
We rest your hermits.
~ William Shakespeare
I think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he is.
~ William Shakespeare
I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood, For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance.
~ William Shakespeare
Ladies, you deserve To have a temple built you: all the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms, Could not have made this peace.
~ William Shakespeare
But Montague is bound as well as I, In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace.
~ William Shakespeare
On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace! The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv'st, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
~ William Shakespeare
Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it.
~ William Shakespeare
God's benison go with you; and with those That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!
~ William Shakespeare
Caesar. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night.      Thrice
~ William Shakespeare
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds# through Christ Jesus.
~ William Smith
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
~ William Styron
Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.
~ William Styron
For me the real healers were seclusion and time.
~ William Styron
H. W. Longfellow, "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ William Ury
If we don't let go of our resentment and regret, we become prisoners of the past.
~ William Ury
He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN
~ William Ury
Instead of attacking, focused on taking away the stick.
~ William Ury
The peace we can aspire to then is not a harmonious peace of the grave, nor a submissive peace of the slave, but a hardworking peace of the brave.
~ William Ury
then found a bench in a
~ William W. Johnstone
can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.
~ William W. Johnstone
I can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.
~ William W. Johnstone
Rest and be thankful.
~ William Wordsworth