Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Madonna Ciccone

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Rebecca Garang

I want to show you peace is peace and everything will go well.

D. H. Lawrence

Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Daniel Woodrell

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Simone Elkeles

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

Sri Aurobindo

One can see light above the head; that indicates a consciousness outside the body. But that itself is not the Truth-Consciousness or Vijnana. But much light descending from there illumines this consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo

There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

Sri Aurobindo

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

Sri Aurobindo

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

Sri Chinmoy

What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.

Tim O'Reilly

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

Demi Lovato

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

Ellen Lupton

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

Milos Zeman

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Khloe Kardashian

If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love.

Pope Francis

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

John Keats

I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.

Judy Collins

I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

Paul Martin

There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience.

Karen Russell

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