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Quotes About Peace

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.
~ Elliott Abrams
A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.
~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there.
~ Elliott Abrams
I've often made critical comments about settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and in east Jerusalem, and my position hasn't changed. At the same time, it's equally important to me that the two sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, work towards a durable peace settlement: that's to say a viable two-state solution.
~ Angela Merkel
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
~ Afrika Bambaataa
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
~ David Cameron
Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.
~ Min-sik Choi
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
~ Charles Albert Gobat
It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
~ Joe Moore
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
~ Belva Lockwood
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
I have always practiced by myself. It's just because that is when I can do the most work, the most efficient work, is when I am by myself, and I think I just find a little bit of peace when it comes to being able to be out here on the golf course, and you are just you and yourself and your thoughts.
~ Jason Day
I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
~ Tina Turner
Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.
~ Shankar Mahadevan
I just pray to God and make sure I'm good with God.
~ Tory Lanez
I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.
~ Afeni Shakur
I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.
~ Reuven Rivlin
I pray daily... for peace.
~ Paul O'Neill
I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.
~ Betsy Hodges
In the morning before all the craziness happens, I make sure to pray, and I'll put aside 10 minutes to meditate. I feel when I do that, I'm able to get through my day a lot better.
~ Eva Marie
I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself.
~ India Arie
I just pray that us as a country and a world can just be united as one.
~ Mohamed Sanu
You pray for your enemies.
~ Colm Wilkinson
The time of day when there was quiet and serenity was every night when we gathered in my parents' bedroom and knelt down together and prayed.
~ Kerry Kennedy