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Quotes About Peace

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
~ Sally Mann
This was not a decision made with the Israelis. This was a decision by the president for the American people. And so, it was a decision that we all said Jerusalem should be the capital and the embassy should be there. This decision should not weigh in on the peace process.
~ Nikki Haley
I learned a long time ago that you need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down.
~ Ken Shamrock
Ironically, the opportunity to go into space brings you back down to Earth big time! My decision must also take into account my children, my family and my friends. I must be at peace with this decision. And I was. I weighed the risks without letting fear feed on fear. There is no room for fear in my life.
~ Guy Laliberte
It's nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.
~ Seth Rollins
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
~ Lady Gregory
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
~ Arthur Henderson
The weight room has always been a place for me where I could go to be relaxed. It's my sanctuary of sorts.
~ Brian Shaw
I swim laps, which is nice because I'm weightless in the water.
~ Morena Baccarin
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I'm not that big of a weirdo, but - occasionally.
~ Kendall Jenner
The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
~ Xi Jinping
We welcome the Obama administration's policy called the 'pivot to Asia' because it is a contributing factor to the safety and peace of the region. I think this pivot policy is playing an indispensable role in enhancing the deterrence of the U.S.-Japan alliance as well as ensuring peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
~ Shinzo Abe
If you intend to use our beautiful city to cause mayhem, disturb the peace, create fear and commit violence, you are not welcome here.
~ Ted Wheeler
Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.
~ Stephen Evans
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
~ Nguyen Cao Ky
Our artistes should be allowed to go to Pakistan just as we welcome their artistes.
~ Soni Razdan
I want everyone to feel very welcomed in the space of our music and our songs, it doesn't matter what you believe or think, I just want to cultivate a space of peace and to touch on these things that bind us as humans.
~ Adrianne Lenker
For decades, Vermont has proudly and peacefully welcomed Somali, Vietnamese, Bosnian and Bhutanese families - and many others - through successful refugee and immigration programs.
~ Phil Scott
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
~ Brian Eno
True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
I believe that Islam is a faith of progress and welfare.
~ Nawaz Sharif
I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.
~ Lupe Fiasco