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Quotes About Calm

Beneath her calm exterior she wished fiercely that she could pound the meanness out of Joren. Even as she thought it, she knew she would do better to ignore him. Water, she thought, collecting her staff from the shed where it was kept. I am a summer lake on a windless day, clear, cool, and still. Joren is a cloud. All he can do is cast a shadow on my surface. I'll be here long after he's gone.
~ Tamora Pierce
Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
~ Tamora Pierce (Author)
Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.
~ Tanith Lee
Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.
~ Ted Dekker
It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.
~ Tennessee Williams
I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again.
~ Tennessee Williams
If I could just give myself to the steady peace of the rain. That lovely steady peace.
~ Tennessee Williams
Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.
~ Julian May
So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools
~ Julianna Baggott
The light of compassion shined so steadily from within them that others could clearly see all the choices they were making, so they no longer existed in the dark. Without a word, without a sword, the energy that was void of light was unable to function on Earth. This brilliant light, which emanated from individuals and became a collective force, stopped the planet's shifting. The seas became calm. The children stepped out to play. And a new song was heard everywhere.
~ Julie A. Barnes
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
It's all in the way you breathe.
~ Julie Otsuka
In realtà v'è qualcosa di calmo e di rassicurante nelle prime ore d'oscurità, ma a misura che la notte si fa avanti e che i rumori della terra tacciono, l'ombra e il silenzio prendono subito un carattere differente. Una specie d'immobilità soprannaturale pesa su tutto e non esiste parola più eloquente che quella di orrore per descrivere i momenti che precedono il sorgere dell'alba.»
~ Julien Green
La razón sólo nos sirve para disecar la realidad en calma, o analizar sus futuras tormentas, nunca para resolver una crisis momentánea
~ Julio Cortazar
Reason is only good to mummify reality in moments of calm or analyze its future storms, never to resolve a crisis of the moment
~ Julio Cortazar
El tiempo, es una lluvia paciente y amarilla que apaga poco a poco los fuegos más violentos
~ Julio Llamazares
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
~ June Cotner
The best ones not only hold their own when faced with the noise of the world, they silence it.
~ Junot Diaz
And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore?
~ Justin Cronin
There were people who were like this, the ones who could not be ruffled or else didn't show it, who possessed great internal reservoirs of calm.
~ Justin Cronin
There is real comfort in being quiet.
~ Justina Chen Headley
A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask.
~ K.J. Parker
A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.
~ K?lid?sa