Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Arthur Balfour

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Dennis Northcutt

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Fred Couples

You're on the International side, and you're helping me out?

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you feel helpless, help someone.

Booker T. Washington

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Billy Childish

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.