Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sargent Shriver

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

Sargent Shriver

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Sargent Shriver

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Sargent Shriver

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

Virgil

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

William Howard Taft

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

Wayne Dyer

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Wayne Dyer

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

Wayne Dyer

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

Wayne Dyer

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

Wayne Dyer

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

Wayne Dyer

Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

Wayne Dyer

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

Virginia Woolf

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Virginia Woolf

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

William Beveridge

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

Salman Rushdie

Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.

Salman Rushdie

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Rudolf Steiner

The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.

Wangari Maathai

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

Wangari Maathai

Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

Virginia Gildersleeve

The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...

William Cohen

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

William Cowper

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Wayne Dyer

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

Wayne Dyer

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

Wayne Dyer

Begin Practicing the Intention to be Authentic & Peaceful with Everyone

Vartan Gregorian

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.