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Quotes About Calm

Die jonge Vrouwe Alyss van jullie, die zit daar als een eiland van rust en verstand in een stormzee vol botsende golven. Zij heeft geduld, heel veel geduld. Alhoewel ik een paar keer het idee kreeg dat zij op het punt stond mijn onderhandelaar met een stapel van zijn paperassen om de oren te slaan. - Selethen
~ John Flanagan
How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.
~ John Flanagan
Patience is the best medicine.
~ John Florio
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
~ John H. Johnson
She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she'd decided to wrap around her shoulders.
~ John Hart
Snow falling in the woods when there's no wind is the most peaceful thing I've ever seen.
~ John Jerome
For to bear all naked truths,And to envisage circumstance, all calm,That is the top of sovereignty.
~ John Keats
War is over ... If you want it.
~ John Lennon
Cool, calm and collected, the three seas of wisdom and success.
~ John McGahern
the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
~ John McGahern
A priest could have no anguish, he'd given up happiness, his fixed life moving in the calm of certainty into its end, cursed by no earthly love or longing, all had been chosen years before.
~ John McGahern
to sit in the comforting darkness and reek of Jeyes Fluid to weep and grope their way in hatred and self-pity back to some sort of calm.
~ John McGahern
Despite the recurrence of events in which the debris-basin system fails in its struggle to contain the falling mountains, people who live on the front line are for the most part calm and complacent. It appears that no amount of front-page or prime-time attention will ever prevent such people from masking out the problem.
~ John McPhee
Fortieth Pole is particularly good for evening beach barbecues with kids—the water is calm and warm, and you'll have a magnificent view of the sunset. Smith's Point is hands down my favorite beach because you can access both the waves of the ocean and the flat water of the sound.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
halcyon days—the days when storms do not occur.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
He looked calmer somehow. It wasn't peace of mind he had found, but maybe a new deliberation.
~ Eliot Pattison
did you know it's almost impossible to feel aggression when you're holding an infant?
~ Elisa Albert
I love thee, as I love the calm Of sweet, star-lighted hours! I love thee, as I love the balm Of early jest 'mine flowers.
~ Eliza Acton
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Angelo's description hadn't prepared Vincent for the reality of Kii. That serpentine shape emerging from camouflaging jungle triggered atavistic responses, an adrenaline spike for which his watch barely compensated. He took one unwilling step back anyway, shivering, and forced himself to pretend to be calm.
~ Elizabeth Bear
What can I say? We're slow.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She semed calm as she watched Julian pack food away, and not at all lik a woman contemplating a Dragon. A duel.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Startle not. Startle not, my beauty.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Rest," she said. "I've got you.
~ Elizabeth Bear