Gautama Buddha Quotes
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Quotes to Explore
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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
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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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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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
Kailash Satyarthi
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
Hamza Yusuf
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Najib Razak
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
Kate Hudson
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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.
Saad Hariri
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There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
Yitzhak Shamir
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'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
Harriet Tubman
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There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
Rand Paul
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
Adam Hochschild
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Salman Rushdie
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
Barack Obama
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
Oscar Wilde
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The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.
Hermann Hesse
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
Wendy Davis
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It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
Lennart Nilsson
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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Gautama Buddha