"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be……" — Herman Wouk
"Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens,…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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More Abstaining Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining,…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace.…
— Julien Benda
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Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could…
— Mike Bickle
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As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it`s the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not…
— Lily Allen
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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion…
— Joseph Butler
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
— W.C. Fields
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The Supreme Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of…
— Bhagavad Gita
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Every human being will have to go before Jesus and give an account of the life they lived. What will…
— Creflo Dollar
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And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allah, and worship none but Him Alone (abstaining from ascribing…
— Unknown Author
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