Call A Truce Quotes

#1. Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce and talk about your weekly specials?" Stheno gave her sister a pouty look, which was hard to do with giant bronze tusks. "Can we?

Rick Riordan

#2. 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 the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

John F. Kennedy

#3. The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#4. This is what I'm talking about. I don't know if we can call a truce. All we know how to do is argue."
"You say that like it's a bad thing."
"Isn't it?"
"Jessica," he whispered, "arguing with you is one of my favourite things to do.

Penny Reid

#5. Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#6. You and I come custom-equipped in much the same way. They don't call babies bundles of joy for nothing.

Nick Carter

#7. Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

Douglas Rushkoff

#8. I declare the Mountain besieged. You shall not depart from it, until you call on your side for a truce and a parley. We will bear no weapons against you, but we leave you to your gold. You may eat that, if you will!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.

~Shin

Ai Yazawa

#10. The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the same as hitting your employee or wife, and the issue become pretty clear when you think about it that way.

Zach Braff

#11. To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Robert Breault

#12. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

#13. I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.

David Markson

#14. Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims.

Voltaire

#15. People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices ...

Rick Rubin

#16. As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.

Frederick Lenz

#17. It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.

Helen Bevington