Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Maya Angelou

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Maria Montessori

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Paddy Chayefsky

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

Pablo Neruda

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Paulo Freire

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

John T. Flynn

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Reggie Bush

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Tom Hodgkinson

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Toni Morrison

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

Scott Adkins

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will

Fannie Lou Hamer

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Jason Varitek

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dorothy Hamill

To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Donald Miller

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Donald Miller

To change the world you'll need a pen.

Don Richardson

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Dutch Ruppersberger

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.