“ Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ”
- Jacob Braude- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. ”
- Robert D. Ballard- Copy
- 3K
“ We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 336
“ Patience is that calm and unruffled temper with which a good man bears the evils of life. ”
- John Robinson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”
- Ethel Lynn Beers- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.3K
“ With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ”
- Jacob Braude- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste. ”
- Martin Farquhar Tupper- Copy
- 472
“ Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. ”
- Paramahansa Yogananda- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 1.6K
“ America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3K
“ Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
- 371
“ If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse. ”
- Joan Sutherland- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living… ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects… ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 3K
“ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ”
- H.P. Lovecraft- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
- 262
“ The suffering of either sex — of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult — this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
- 2.4K
“ People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled — secure from violent passions or temptations to evil — those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints. ”
- Eva Le Gallienne- Copy
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