The best Quotes by Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Peace

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

War

Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

Failures & Mistakes Courage Risk

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Behind every successful man, there stands a surprised woman.

Maryon Pearson (Ehefrau von Lester Bowles Pearson (14. Premierminister Canadas))

Heard your new joint, it's embarrassing, sh-t
You talk to the cops on some therapist sh-t
You act like you love this American sh-t
But, really, the truth is you scared of the Six

Drake - MELTDOWN, Album: Utopia (by Travis Scott)

Toronto

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

Mike Myers

Canada Toronto

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus in Troy

War Politics

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Mathematics Politics

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Peace

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

War Waiting

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

Benedict Wells

Failures & Mistakes Breakup Beginning

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Courage

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Life Risk Safety

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski in The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Life Risk Beginning

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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