#ace

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#broad #communities #diversity #light #like

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#finances #frustrated #i #i think #inability

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. ↗

— George W. Bush

#i #just #know #peace #really

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace. ↗

— George W. Bush

#climbed #i #i see #mighty #mountain

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. ↗

— Laura Bush

#get #governors #into #know #lot

Necessity has the face of a dog. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#face #necessity

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#armed #because #christian #committed #here

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#men #more #occasions #seldom #supreme