Quotes with peace-at-any-price

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  • Ben Jonson I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio On William Shakespeare
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • David Gemmell I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
    Source: Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 371
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abraham Cowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Buzz Osborne I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Peace Pilgrim I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Arthur Keith I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • James Baldwin I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Charlie Chaplin I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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