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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Booker T. Washington

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Andy Goldsworthy

The early firings contained many stones.

Anne Sexton

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Claire Danes

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Corey Taylor

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

Alice Hoffman

I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Graham Russell

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

George Herbert

You cannot flea a stone.