Quotes About Peace

In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.

Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.

Qué significa que las pesadillas sueñen con la paz? ¿Que lassombras suspiren por la luz?

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

A great day in the annals of two ancient nations, Egypt and Israel, whose sons met in battle five times, fighting and falling…. It is thanks to our fallen heroes that we could have reached this day.

We return to the land of our forefathers not by the right of might but by the might, so that all our citizens, residents may live in peace, May citizens

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14

Nothing is more useful than silence.

And when Quimet saw the doves flying above our roof and only above our roof, his face stopped looking so yellow and he said everything was okay. When the doves got sick of flying they started to come down, first one and then another. They went back in the dovecote like old ladies going to mass, taking little steps and jerking their heads like wind-up toys.

Solo los muertos no me dan miedo. No piden nada; por eso me dan tanta pena y los quiero tanto, y aún más cuando a veces pienso que soy una muerta viva... que ya habría muerto hace muchas muchas vidas de otra gente... Hay que enterrarlos en lo más profundo de la tierra para que puedan reposar para siempre muy cerca de las raíces. Y convertirse en árboles.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

to that place where no one could hear me but the sand when I walked upon it, where I could write and work, where I could read and sleep, where no one needed me except the shoreline to remark upon its incredible beauty.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control.

George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice and Marit, and, last of all, hatred of Dr. Gharn, who had started it all. But the hatred swayed to pity. Then to hopelessness. Then back to anger. Every once in a great while, he felt a moment of peace, usually when he caught a glimpse of Beatrice and Marit together. He loved them both in different ways. But that could not be. He turned away, and the cycle began again.

Seja que dia for, é bom voltar. Voltar, agora que temos paz... Sem desviar os olhos da penerira, Hanifa Assulua reclamou, em surdina. Eu falava da Paz? Qual Paz? - Talvez para eles, os homens - disse. - Porque nós, mulheres, todas as manhãs continuamos a despertar para uma antiga e infindável guerra.

O que importa não é passear de noite mas deixar a noite passear-se em nós.

A diferença entre a Guerra e a Paz é a seguinte: na Guerra, os pobres são os primeiros a serem mortos; na Paz os pobres são os primeiros a morrer. Para nós, mulheres, há ainda uma outra diferença: na Guerra, passamos a ser violadas por quem não conhecemos.

Naquele sossego, a única coisa que apetece é fazer demorar o tempo.

The difference between war and peace is as follows: in war, the poor are the first to be killed; in peace, the poor are the first to die. For us women, there's another difference too: in war, we get raped by those we do not know.

Natural não treme

Afinal, eu estava como dizia o cantador da aldeia: no sossego, sou cego; na timaca (confusão) não vejo

La guerra no pide armas. Es al contrario: las armas hacen nacer la guerra.

Engano seu... Nenhuma guerra termina nunca.