Peacemaker Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain. — David Gemmell

We will go. Nowhere we know. We don't have to talk at all. — Ann Brashares

Most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23) — Mahatma Gandhi

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps. — Ari Berk

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot. — Markus Zusak

Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references). — Gian-Carlo Rota

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. — Richard Price