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Quotes About Peace

Not a mouse stirring.
~ William Shakespeare
The innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care...
~ William Shakespeare
Some come to take their easeAnd sleep an act or two.
~ William Shakespeare
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels.
~ William Shakespeare
O polish'd perturbation! golden care!That keep'st the ports of slumber open wideTo many a watchful night!
~ William Shakespeare
I will to EgyptAnd though I make this marriage for my peace,I' the East my pleasure lies.
~ William Shakespeare
And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
~ William Shakespeare
Death, death: O, amiable lovely death!
~ William Shakespeare
I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.
~ William Shakespeare
Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry.
~ William Shakespeare
This weak piping time of peace.
~ William Shakespeare
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
~ William Shakespeare
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
~ William Shakespeare
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
~ William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
~ William Shakespeare
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
~ William Shakespeare
tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon thee,
~ William Sloane
Sit tibi terra levis. "May the earth lie light upon
~ William Sloane
We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.
~ William Stafford
The wars we haven't had saved many lives.
~ William Stafford
Most mornings I get away, slip out the door before light, set forth on the dim, gray road, letting my feet find a cadence that softly carries me on. Nobody is up—all alone my journey begins. Some
~ William Stafford
In war, people yearn for relief from strife, leading to peace. In peace, people yearn to champion what they love, leading to war.
~ William Strauss
Though we live in an era of relative peace and comfort, we have settled into a mood of pessimism about the long-term future, fearful that our superpower nation is somehow rotting from within.
~ William Strauss
Anxieties do not end in death. Anxieties end in God.
~ William Stringfellow