Quotes with peace-at-any-price

Quotes 2561 till 2580 of 2589.

  • J. P. Donleavy But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Donald Trump I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
    Speech Sioux Center, Iowa, januari 2016
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bruno Rossi In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
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  • Winston Churchill In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Fuller It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Simone Weil The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • A. W. Tozer The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice-any choice will be the right one.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Simone Weil The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Denis Diderot The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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