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Peacefulness Quotes (page 43)

He couldn't go into his army's barracks -- he had long since learned that the best commanders stay away unless they have some reason to visit. The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk, and act, and think. Orson Scott Card
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace. Howard Thurman
What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneurs north? Or is it, rather, to have a good family life and to be imbued with a far-reaching and intimate knowledge of one’s homeland, which is what the Tununirmiut told the whalers at Pond’s Bay wealth was? Is it to retain a capacity for awe and astonishment in our lives, to continue to hunger after what is genuine and worthy? Is it to live... Barry Lopez
Steig Larsson quote: "I don't give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign..."
I don't give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign here that you received it and you can get drunk in peace. Steig Larsson
Ringo Starr quote: "Last night I had a peace dream..."
Last night I had a peace dream... Ringo Starr
Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow. Illuminated in your infinite peace, a billion stars go spinning through the night, blazinghigh above your head. But IN you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead. Rainer Maria Rilke
George W. Bush quote: "No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at..."
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace. George W. Bush
July 1936There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire. A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the... Michael Ondaatje
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you..."
Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! Diana Wynne Jones
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening Arundhati Roy
Tom Robbins quote: "It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and..."
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful... Tom Robbins
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so! J. D. Salinger
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security. James Madison
Herschel Walker quote: "SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the..."
SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE. Herschel Walker
Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed. Kurt Vonnegut

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