Truce Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn… — Joan of Arc
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. — Sun Tzu
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march… — Sun Tzu
When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the enemy pretentiously advances,… — Sun Tzu
Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some… — Lloyd Alexander
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise… — R. S. Thomas
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke… — John F. Kennedy
Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend. — Jane Fonda
The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual,… — George W. Bush
We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs… — John F. Kennedy
Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games… — Jacques Rogge
Companies arenâ€™t families. Theyâ€™re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year,… — Charles Duhigg
And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because… — Andrea Dworkin
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the… — Haile Selassie
TRUCE, n. Friendship. — Ambrose Bierce
We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no… — Winston Churchill
The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I… — Dan Fante
There can be no truce between science and religion. — John B. S. Haldane

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