Peaceful Quotes - Page 22

• I've got a job to do, and I'm going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, America, World

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2003.

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• Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!

  Washington Irving

  Death, Regret, Spring

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.

  Michael Badnarik

  Men, Gun, People

  "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

  Wilhelm Reich

  Animal, Men, Machines

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

  Publilius Syrus

  Peaceful Life, Mines

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 790, 1856.

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• No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

  Richard E. Byrd

  America, World, Littles

  The Oakland Tribune, November 26, 1955.

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• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  Eminem

  Teacher, School, Funny Things

  "Song: 'I'm Shady'". 1999.

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• Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Thinking, Comfort

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• If I am peaceful, I shall see
  Beauty's face continually;
  Feeding on her wine and bread
  I shall be wholly comforted,
  For she can make one day for me
  Rich as my lost eternity.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wine, One Day, Faces

  "The Wind in the Hemlock". "Flame and Shadow". Book by Sara Teasdale, 1920.

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• When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.

  Francis Parkman

  Hunting, Discovery, Europe

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.145, Library of America

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• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Israel, Numbers, Nuclear

  "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

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• As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.

  Francois Fenelon

  Pride, Reflection, Simple

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• Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Perfect, Might

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Inspirational, Nature, Needs

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• Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.

  Nhat Hanh

  Helping Others, People, Movement

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

  Thaddeus Norris

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Thaddeus Norris (1864). “The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing”, p.567

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• We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Country, War, Heart

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• As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  Responsibility, Unions, Serious

  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Viktor Pribytkov (1984). “Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko”, Praeger Publishers

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• You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.

  Buffalo Bill

  Opportunity, Fire, Cities

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.165, Courier Corporation

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• Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Teacher, Children, People

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• Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Attitude, Play

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

  Robert Browning

  Peace, Age, Tonight

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

  Anjelica Huston

  Animal, People, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

  Gertrude Stein

  Success, Succeed

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.348, Vintage

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• If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Becoming, Growing, Ifs

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