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.

Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Robert Ellis

I figured there would be five to seven ride clear. We put a few distance problems in, but we also made it very delicate, so it took a lot of riding.

Rick Warren

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

Samuel Johnson

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

Samuel Johnson

By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An authour cannot obtrude his advice unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.

Sam Abell

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

William Hazlitt

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

Wendell Berry

The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Peter Sellers

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Pythagoras

Without Justice, no realm may prosper.

Joseph Brant

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

Ralph Steadman

There is no truly global justice.

Rahul Gandhi

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.