Olive Branches quotes

[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

#War #Choices #Olive Branches
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

#Encounters #Olive Branches #Able
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
-- Don Williams

#Hatred #Olive Branches #Fists
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
-- Ovid

#War #Olive Branches #Olives
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
-- Steven Levitt

#Information #Olives #Olive Branches

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
I had been teaching myself photography.
The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.
I do not want to believe in God. Â Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.
Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than a common murderer, who at least cuts your throat himself, without persuading YOU to do it.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA five years ago, didn't we? We told them about indefinite detention. We told them you can't come after the internet, that's unconstitutional. You can't do warrantless searches, that's unconstitutional.