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Quotes About Peace

I thought it would be quieter here." [Anna] hadn't meant to say anything, but the noise startled her. "The wind in the trees," Bran said. "And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.
~ Patricia Briggs
He smiled, a wide, joyful expression—and oddly the fangs didn't rob the smile of its charm. "I am at peace, Mercy," he told me. He closed his eyes and quit moving his body. "Just like you told me. I will never be okay again." He didn't sound unhappy about it.
~ Patricia Briggs
Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.
~ Patricia Briggs
Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
~ Patricia Briggs
Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.
~ Patricia Briggs
don't like crosses. My distaste has nothing to do with the metaphysical like it does for vampires; when I lived in Bran's pack, I wore crosses, too. I have a whole spiel about how sick it is to carry around the instrument of Christ's torture as a symbol for the Prince of Peace who taught us to love one another. It's a good spiel, and I even believe
~ Patricia Briggs
It is a great strain to have to reassure people that one is perfectly well when all one really wishes is to be left alone to sleep.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
after the rain bomb craters filled with stars - John Brandi
~ Unknown
There was in the meeting-house a wood quiet. It was the quiet of trees that have been brought in out of the wind, whose new-shown limbs reach out, not to the sky but to the people. This is the quiet, still, otherness of trees found by the carver, the shaper, the maker.
~ Unknown
I need solitude for my writing; not like a hermit—that wouldn't be enough—but like a dead man.
~ Patricia Hampl
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
~ Patricia Heaton
My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.
~ Patricia Highsmith
But sometimes I still think about Mr Ramsay and the summer evenings when he would stand in the centre of the paddock and I would ride Perdita in that magic circle that shut out the troubled unease of the world and enclosed the three of us in a dream of fair horses.
~ Unknown
Let us live without hate among those who hate
~ Patricia Nell Warren
The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view
~ Patrick Carman
My strength was returning as we went on. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself-courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace- and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.
~ Patrick Carman
sound of snipping growing softer outside the window, Leo
~ Patrick Carman
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.
~ Patrick Carman
Yersin thích tr?t t? và xa hoa, b?i xa hoa ??ng ngh?a v?i t?nh l?ng. ?i?u t? h?i nh?t c?a c?nh nghèo ?ói b?n cùng, là lúc nào c?ng b? qu?y r?y. Không bao gi? ???c ? m?t mình
~ Unknown
There is no greater fan of fly fishing then the worm.
~ Unknown
Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
~ Patrick Henry
I'd rather be happy than be right." Probably
~ Unknown
After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.
~ Patrick Modiano
Nada le perturbaba el sueño. Todavía no tenía memoria.
~ Patrick Modiano