Desire Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Negotiation Peace
“Peace was not the absence of conflict; it was having the courage to face the conflict and make the right choices.” — Michael D. Evans Copy Share Image
“If we’re looking for peace from the world, forget it. We have to find our own inside. It’s actually easier to find.” — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“There was absolutely no peace. I wanted freedom, breakthrough and most of all I wanted to be rid of the situation.” — Michelle Sabrena Alexander Copy Share Image
“You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that… — Esther Veltheim Copy Share Image
“I'd seen that peace is more than the absence of war, and that a good life entails more than the absence of suffering.” — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Peace is only available to those who want it, and only possible to those who will hug their enemy to enjoy it.” — Brett Biaggio Copy Share Image
“peace wasn't about avoiding things. It was about making the choice to live life with all its chaos around you, and in the midst… — Vi Keeland Copy Share Image
“I never thought I'd find peace until I give peace a place in my life!” — LaFreddie B Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
