When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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Quotes tagged ‘Peace’
Ogbuef Ezedudu, who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. ‘It has not always been so,’ he said. ‘My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who…
Great and formidable Prince Duke of Burgundy, Joan the Maiden requests of you, in the name of the King of Heaven, my rightful and sovereign Lord, that the King of France and yourself should make a good firm lasting peace. Fully pardon each other willingly, as faithful Christians should do; and if it…
The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Peace can be made only by those who are peaceful, and love can be shown only by those who love. No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
I am for lasting peace….United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the…
Now Europe balanc’d, neither side prevails: For nothing’s left in either of the scales.
The only excuse, therefore, for going to war is that we may live in peace unharmed; and when the victory is won, we should spare those who have not been bloodthirsty and barbarous in their warfare.
Men, it's been a long war, it's been a tough war. You've fought bravely, proudly for your country. You're a special group. You've found in one another a bond that exists only in combat, among brothers. You've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together.…
— Erik Jendresen, Erik Bork, Joseph Liebgott, Ross McCall, imdb.com
I wonder what will happen to us—to people like you and me—when there are no more wars to occupy us?
— Erik Jendresen, Erik Bork, German Colonel, Philip Rham, imdb.com
That night, I took time to thank God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. And if, somehow, I managed to get home again, I promised God and myself that I would find a quiet piece of land someplace and spend the rest of my life in peace.
When we follow our hearts, when we choose not to settle, it’s funny isn’t it? A weight lifts. The sun shines a little brighter and for a brief moment at least, we find a little peace.
Every force has its equal. Fear, peace, dark, light…one can’t exist without the other.
— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Jones-Morales, Sunny, Daniel Wu, imdb.com
My definition of peace is having no noise in my head.
My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
— Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., amazon.com
There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier.
You desire peace; and you blame me that we do not have it. But how can we attain it? There are but three conceivable ways. First, to suppress the rebellion by force of arms. This, I am trying to do. Are you for it? If you are, so far we are agreed. If you are not for it, a second way is, to give up…
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve a…
You don't know how wonderful peace is. You have no idea how disconcerting peace can be. But I know. Because I saw it when I was eight years old on the banks of a river in Colorado peace. It was beautiful.
— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com