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Quotes About Calm

He hated injustice as he hated cruelty and he lay in his rage that blinded his mind until gradually the anger died down and the red, black, blinding, killing anger was all gone and his mind now as quiet, empty-calm and sharp, cold-seeing as a man is after he has had sexual intercourse with a woman that he does not love.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No. Rien à faire. Rien. Faut pas penser. Faut accepter.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Some relationships originate in feelings of warmth, tenderness, and nurturance, and the partners choose to remain in these calmer waters. They prefer a love that is built on patience more than on passion. To them, finding serenity in a lasting bond is what counts. There is no one way, and there is no right way.
~ Esther Perel
Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.
~ Eudora Welty
The inglorious arts of peace.
~ Andrew Marvell
I'm learning to be patient.
~ Andrew Morton
For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on July 22, a week after the fall of the Bastille, 'calm will return. In a month, there will no longer be a question of anything. So, if you send me 300 livres [7,500 francs] I will go to Paris to terminate our business.
~ Andrew Roberts
He was calm and cold. And killed calmly and coldly.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Take this and put it to your nose or you'll be covered in blood! Calmly, calmly, little one, just don't faint. I'm beside you. I'm beside you… daughter. Hold the handkerchief. I'll just conjure up some ice…
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Yet this faint sound was enough to wake the witcher – or maybe it only tore him from the half-slumber in which he rocked monotonously, as though travelling though fathomless depths, suspended between the sea bed and its calm surface amidst gently undulating strands of seaweed. He
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The fair-haired maid of Cintra, who for some unknown reason had not killed him, seemed insane. The white-haired fiend was not insane. He was calm and cold. And killed calmly and coldly.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Spokojnie, spokojnie, malutka, tylko mi nie mdlej. Jestem przy tobie. Jestem przy tobie... córeczko. Trzymaj chustkÄ™. Zaraz wyczarujÄ™ lód...
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
She shuddered even more intensely. And calmed down. I'm alive, she thought, looking around. It's not the end of the battle. Death will end the fight, everything else only interrupts it. They taught me that at Kaer Morhen.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I think," the vampire said calmly, "that you are wrong, Madam Vigo. The dream that the Witcher is dreaming, I humbly submit with respect, is an enchanting and beautiful one. But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.
~ Andy Andrews
Everybody cannot be calm. To be calm is a luxury!
~ Angie Cruz
yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.
~ Angie Sage
now be quiet, I'm going to be sick.
~ Angie Sage
Dingen hebben de gewoonte om vanzelf in orde te komen, zie je. Uiteindelijk - Marcia
~ Angie Sage
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
~ Ani DiFranco
I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
~ Ani DiFranco
My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion, or gave me ideas about what to do; other times, they calmed me so much that I would fall into a soothing sleep. My father used to say that her tales were better than the best medicine. Sighing, I burrowed into my mother's body like a child, knowing that the sound of her voice would be a balm on my heart.
~ Anita Amirrezvani
For they themselves were still beautiful, designed for a more beautiful life than the one in which they found themselves becalmed. She saw that they were more stoical, had more depth, than she had ever perceived.
~ Anita Brookner