Quotes About Olive Branch

#1. Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent
all depending on who wields it and how.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. [W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Don Williams

#4. WWE has not called me to be a part of any roster. My relationship with WWE stands with the video game and the video game only. If they want to extend an olive branch and pick up the phone, then I will make a comment on that once they do it. But prior to that, nothing's been done.

Bill Goldberg

#5. Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

#6. There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.

Debra Granik

#7. No doubt Noah offered his wife that olive branch. Forty days in a boat with those animals to clean up after? A peace offering likely all that stood between their marriage and bloody murder.

Gregory Maguire

#8. The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

Dorothea Dix

#9. We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.

Paloma Picasso

#10. Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.

Carrie Butler

#11. That was Clay's olive branch to Quinn, and if the sumbitch weren't as stubborn as a mule, he'd take it.

Alex Morgan

#12. I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Yasser Arafat

#13. It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.

Mark Haddon

#14. Who we really are shows up between extending the olive branch and waiting to see if it is received.

Bonnie Lyn Smith

#15. In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

Ovid

#16. While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

#17. The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Maria Montessori

#18. Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.

Monty Roberts

#19. It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

Karl Landsteiner

#20. Make the most of your carefree young life as you can.

Anne Frank

#21. In the end, it's the bitches of the world who abide . . . and as for the dust bunnies: frig ya!

Stephen King

#22. What's going on, Mystique?" I whispered. "What are we doing in this very dark bedroom, exchanging flirty eyes?" She held up her hands, her words coming out in a breathless tumble. "This room is Vegas. Okay? What happens here stays here. Or, rather, what's said here stays here.

Christina Lauren

#23. One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.

Jeanne W. Ross

#24. The moment you try working on what appears difficult to you, you will start noticing it's loopholes that you can breakthrough.

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Not all destinies are fair, Colby. Hers isn't, yours isn't. We get the lives we choose, even when we don't know we're making a choice.

C. Robert Cargill

#26. I never became rich but I often thought about it and now I have some good memories.

Boris Zubry

#27. John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Clive James

#28. The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

Troye Sivan

#29. Religions have a special responsibility to encourage and inspire people to love planet earth, which as far as we know, is the only place in the cosmos that works in such a harmonious way that it can support intelligent life.

Thomas Keating

#30. History is, as we know, written by the winners.

Rachel Martin

#31. Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

Marcus Aurelius