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Quotes About Calm

I like her. She's restful.
~ Jo Walton
Consider Augustus's motto. Hurry more slowly.
~ Jo Walton
Desespero quieto às vezes é o melhor remédio que há.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
We've made peace. At least a little.
~ Joan Bauer
We struggle to maintain a dead past in the name of peace and refuse the new life that running water brings to everything. We confuse "stagnant" with "calm" and call it holiness. We miss the power of the paradox that peace is not passivity and that a living death is neither death nor life.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Sometimes just to look at Miranda's calm oval face and straight corn-yellow hair gave her a sharp little stab of pleasure.
~ Joan Lindsay
It was hard to be moderate in immoderate times.
~ Joanne B. Freeman
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
~ Joanne Harris
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.
~ Ann M. Martin
The murmur of the limpid stream.
~ Ann Radcliffe
At night I dream of swimming, my arms move smoothly through the water it is so easy, so calm.
~ Ann Turner
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Yellow and fresh are the lanterns, Black is the road of the garden at sea. I am very calm. Only please, do not Talk about him with me. You're tender and loyal, we'll be friends. . Have fun, kiss, together grow old. . And light months above us will fly like feathers, Like stars made of snow and as cold.
~ Anna Akhmatova
The early chills are most pleasant to me. Torment releases me when I come there. Mysterious, dark places of habitation -- Are storehouses of labor and prayer. The calm and confident loving I can't surmount in this side of mine: A drop of Novgorod blood inside me Is like a piece of ice in foamy wine. And this can not in any way be corrected, She has not been melted by great heat, And what ever I began to glory -- You, quiet one, shine before me yet.
~ Anna Akhmatova
No more of this llama drama!
~ Anna Dewdney
She drew the Loire. Slow, wide, calm, imperturbable. The lazy sandbanks, the pilings, the mildewed boats. Over there, a cormorant. Pale rushes and the blue of the sky. A winter blue- metallic, brilliant, bold, showing off its colors between two big weary clouds.
~ Anna Gavalda
Il ne lui répondit qu'une seule fois: 01:16 silence Voulait-il dire: fin du service, paix, calme, ou voulait-il dire: boucle-la?
~ Anna Gavalda
A whisper. To speak in a whisper. To whisper—like the sea.
~ Anna Kamie?ska
The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart like a cruel needle of ice. Her face falls grotesquely, her mouth trembles, tears - the sudden, despairing tears of a hurt child - fill her eyes to the brim.
~ Anna Kavan
at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…
~ Anne Carson
He slept like a shout.
~ Anne Enright
said, more calmly now. "Shut the
~ Anne Holt
I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.
~ Anne Sexton
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
~ Anne Tyler