Paul Theroux Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
-
We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
-
Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.
-
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
-
People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
-
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
-
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
-
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
-
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
-
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
-
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
-
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
-
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
-
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
-
The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
-
Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
-
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
-
Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
-
The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.
-
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
-
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
-
I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
-
Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
-
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
