Peace

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  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
        Thomas a Kempis   Best?
  • My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
        Jacob Braude   Best?
  • When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
        Dame Edna Everage   Best?
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.
        Yoda   Best?
  • I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.
        Queen Amidala   Best?
  • We work for peace. We pray for peace. But we are all citizens of the nation. And we meet our responsibility, as that responsibility is defined by our leadership in the nation.
        Gordon B. Hinckley   Best?
  • Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
        Whittaker Chambers   Best?
  • Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.
        Osama Bin Laden   Best?
  • The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
        T.S. Elliot   Best?
  • To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
        Buddha   Best?
  • It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
        Seneca   Best?
  • I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • If you're in the public eye, you're either a womanizer or you're gay. I'm neither one.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
        Jimmy Carter   Best?
  • Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
        Paul McCartney   Best?
  • In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
        Plato   Best?
  • In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
        Cicero   Best?
  • We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
        Moses Hasid   Best?
  • God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
        Reinhold Niebuhr   Best?
  • The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
        Aristophanes   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
        James Thurber   Best?

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