Quotes About Peace

While we do not want war, we will not tolerate any bullying by Beijing.

Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.

Terrorism must never be tolerated for any reason and we resolutely condemn it.

Terrorism in the country will not be tolerated at any cost.

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

There is more glory in peace than in war

I'm glad that your work is at 291 — when I'm with it it seems to prop me up — makes me forget so much that is hideous — and a deep reverence for something very wonderful invariably over comes me — That's what you give me. The place breathes peace & space — human throb — a great yearning — a great closeness —

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness. I cannot say that I have found peace now. But I have never loved with greater strength than in this place, with its earth the color of verdaccio and its generous fruit.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

I must find peace in the only place possible in India. Within.

I figure that if I can find peace in death, then perhaps I can find peace and a sense of grace in life.

When the worst comes to pass, the first feeling is relief.

She ate toast in bed, then reread a favorite book, taking comfort from a story where she knew the outcome would be good and just and right.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide

Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.

Gideon was there, warm and green and smelling slightly of cloves but not at all of bitterness and death, and I could hear no voices in my head at all.

They did not care that this serene harmony was built on blood and death and pain.

The indignities visited on his corpse could not touch him; in death he was inviolate. I had no such grace.

In our house DNA means Do Not Argue.