William Blake Quotes
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza -
With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
E. P. Thompson -
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
Kate DiCamillo -
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
Mandy Patinkin -
Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
Hamza Yusuf -
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge -
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Mahmoud Darwish -
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips
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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.
Kara Lindsay -
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Natan Sharansky -
I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
Magic Johnson
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I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
Joanne Rowling -
There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.
Blake Griffin -
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
Jack Osbourne -
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
Rachel Hunter -
Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.
Kellyanne Conway -
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
William Blake