Peacebuilding Fund Quotes & Sayings

He said, A peace that is disturbed is not peace. And a silence that is disturbed is just a dream, not a reality. — Osho

I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long. — Thomm Quackenbush

Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it. — Ben Yagoda

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable. — Kathy Najimy

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities. — James E. Faust

No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political. — Tamara Hill

No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense. — Ayn Rand

All that a good government aims at ... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. — James F. Cooper

Beauty type or hair styles constantly evolve through time. Hence, a woman shouldn't be reduced to the current trends. — Maria Borges

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one. — W. Somerset Maugham

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be. — Delta Burke

He won't stop staring.
"What?" I ask.
"How much do you weigh?"
"Wow. Is that how you talk to every girl you meet? That explains so much."
"I'm about one hundred seventy-five pounds," he says. "Of muscle."
I stare at him. "Would you like an award?"
"Well, well, well," he says, cocking his head, the barest hint of a smile flickering across his face. "Look who's the smart-ass now."
"I think you're rubbing off on me," I say. — Tahereh Mafi

Don't you think that the best things are already in view? — Julia Ward Howe