Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Suffering
  • Sea
  • Picnic

• The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Why
  • Book

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Work
  • Believe
  • War

• What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • World
  • War
  • Think

• You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Up
  • War
  • America

• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • War
  • Education
  • Rich

• The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist.

  

  James Forrestal
  • Great
  • Country
  • Real

• Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • War
  • Respect
  • Fighting

• I like war.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • War

• You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • War

• I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Society
  • Pain

• With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

  

  John Doolittle
  • People
  • War
  • Freedom

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Think
  • Positive

• I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

  

  Claudio Reyna
  • Up
  • America
  • Culture

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Music

• Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • War
  • Pain
  • Suffering