I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
— Yayoi Kusama
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations.
— Yasser Arafat
We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
— Yahya Jammeh
The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
— Xi Jinping
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
— Xavier Becerra
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
— Woody Allen
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
— Wole Soyinka
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
— Winona Ryder
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
— Winfield Scott Hancock
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
— William Shakespeare
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
— William Lilly
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
— William J. Clinton
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.
I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that we shall discover ourselves in peace more than we have with war and confrontation, as I am sure that the Israelis, in turn shall find themselves in peace more than they have found it in war.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.
As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
— Yakov Smirnoff
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
— Xenophon
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
— Wyndham Lewis
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
— Woodrow Wilson
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
— Winnie Byanyima
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
— Willie Nelson
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
— William R. Alger
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
— William Laud
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.
The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace' and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions.
Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
— Yair Lapid
China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.
I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
— Xavier Dolan
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
— Wyclef Jean
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
Without women's equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never be realized.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
— William Pennington
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.
— William Manchester
When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an America where nobody is invisible or counted out. But for this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face. And she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known.
