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Quotes About Peaceful

Is it so nice as all that?' asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him. 'Nice? It's the ONLY thing,' said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Can't we convince the CIA that some of us are peaceful? - Lazlo We'll have to try. Angus folded his arms across his broad chest. And if they doona believe we're peaceful, then we'll have to kill the bastards. Aye. Ian nodded. Roman frowned. Somehow, their Highlander logic escaped him.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Inside Junior's it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly
~ Kim Harrison
I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.
~ Kim Harrison
nonviolent civil resistance of various soft kinds is demonstrably more successful than violent resistance when it comes to actually achieving the stated goals of the resistance and changing things for the better. Chenoweth
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy
~ L. Frank Baum
Please make yourselves at home here for a few minutes, while I attend to an errand, said the Nome King, getting up from the throne. I shall return pretty soon, when I hope to find you pieceful—ha, ha, ha!—that's a joke you can't appreciate now but will later. Be pieceful—that's the idea. Ho, ho, ho! How funny. Then he waddled from the cavern, closing the door behind him.
~ L. Frank Baum
"Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion."
~ George W. Bush
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.
~ Martin Rees
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
~ Malcolm X
So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.
~ Snoop Dogg
Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.
~ Nelson Mandela
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
~ Yoko Ono
happiness depends on expectations rather than objective conditions. We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Nobody heard the deacon cry as he swung the cleaver. Everyone from eighteen to fifty was busy with the peaceful revolutionary work of preparing supper.
~ zamyatin yevgeny iii
Always follow your bliss; bliss is heavenly. Life will be divinely beautiful and grow spiritually. Life will be beautiful, peaceful, blissful, and divine.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Not all of Anthony's officers, however, were eager or even willing to join Chivington's well-planned massacre. Captain Silas Soule, Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, and Lieutenant James Connor protested that an attack on Black Kettle's peaceful camp would violate the pledge of safety given the Indians by both Wynkoop and Anthony, "that it would be murder in every sense of the word," and any officer participating would dishonor the uniform of the Army.
~ Dee Brown
Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.
~ Peter Cosgrove
The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.
~ George W. Bush
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
~ Elizabeth Zimmermann
Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.
~ Stuart Wilde
It was a peaceful, sunny death, a sleep without end in the calm of the countryside.
~ Émile Zola