Quotes About Peace

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Part of you is the wind," he murmured. "Oui, that is true. But even the wind sometimes rests." Shaking her head, she slid her hand around the back of his neck, soaking in the intrinsically male heat of his skin. "Then consider me an endless storm.

I couldn't sleep." "Bad dreams?" "No dreams." It was a husky whisper. "That was the problem.

Those who say vengeance eats you up are wrong—it doesn't, not if you do it right.

Don't hurt us and we won't hurt you. DR. A day later, a response had been found in Lucas's lair. Agreed. SD.

Each hour, every hour of peace was a treasure. War boiled black and violent on the horizon, and when it came, it would engulf the world.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today,

You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. —Job 11:16–17

There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim.

Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

It often has been said that unforgiveness is like you drinking poison but expecting the other person to die.

As we walked toward the gangplank, Beth threatened to start another war if I didn't write to her, and I vowed, for the sake of world peace, to be a faithful correspondent.

You cannot warm yourself at the fire of anger without chilling your soul.

hard work is still peace compared to what can worry a person on the inside.

The thought came to me like a revelation of sorts, that all the world would be better if people were blind. Everyone. Or if we could always have a huge war or something to work against, so that people could just sing and eat fudge in their living rooms with any-one they wanted to.

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.

Para alguien con alma de jardinero, los jardines son especiales, más que una casa.

En alguna parte tiene que haber algún sitio donde se esté bien. Tiene que haberlo.

The vast majority of Huguenots supported the king and the royal family and wished to live in peace, he explained. The problem was that the Protestant movement had been more or less hijacked by extremists who desired political power. This radical element was using the general unhappiness with the Guises' governance, and especially with their vicious policy of persecution, to forward their own ambitions.

Isn't it interesting how in Christmas cards and on public displays we often see the words, "Peace on earth, good will toward men"? But how seldom we see the prior words, "Glory to God in the highest"! But there is no peace, there is no good will, unless there is glory to God in the highest first. We forget to put God's glory first. Fortunately, he does not. God will be glorified.