Peace Quotes
“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.”
“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
-- George Santayana
“Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.”
-- Doris Lessing
“When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.”
-- Greg Kinnear
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”
-- Norman Vincent Peale
“Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.”
-- Henry Cabot Lodge
“The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.”
-- Jim Harrison