#peace

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #cherish #citizens #death #groups

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#am #because #comforted #enough #going

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#accident #after #aspect #before #come

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#going #got #nowhere #peace #peace process

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. ↗

— George Michael

#heart #listen #mind #never #peace

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. ↗

— Dennis Nilsen

#burden #could #easing #feeling #forever

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #beliefs #communist #else #everybody

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#doing #find #funny #funny things #gardening

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#basis #chose #eternal #eternal peace #japanese