Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Mona Sutphen

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

Alan Cohen

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Pope Paul VI

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

Pope Paul VI

Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that harmony built into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.

Pope Paul VI

If you want peace, work for justice.

Nelson Mandela

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Nelson Mandela

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Pope John Paul II

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

Pope Francis

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

Rachel Carson

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

Rachel Carson

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Rachel Carson

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Craig Johnson

A lot of our water is too polluted to be used for fishing, and swimming.

Margaret Mora

It's not just about the water for us - it's about our identity.

Alan Watts

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Ray Rivera

We are day by day. We have no water running!

Walter Benjamin

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

English Proverbs

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Dear Abbey

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.