Quotes About Calm

The panda is a funny, lovable animal, which defends its territory well. It's strong but calm. It suits me perfectly.

For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.

When my father was the Prime Minister, was there any terrorist activity in this country? The entire country was calm at that time.

All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?

Go where the peace is.

The storm is over, the land hushes to rest: The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone, Is fallen back in the west.

How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.

There are books for when you're bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you're calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There are also books for when you're sad. And there are books for when you're happy. There are books for when you're thirsty for knowledge. And there are books for when you're desperate. The latter are the kind of books Ulises Lima and Belano wanted to write.

Calm is the one thing that will never let us down. And Amalfitano said: everything else lets us down? And the voice: yes, that's right, it's hard to admit, I mean it's hard to have to admit it to you, but that's the honest-to-God truth. Ethics lets us down? The sense of duty lets us down? Honesty lets us down? Curiosity lets us down? Love lets us down? Bravery lets us down? Art lets us down? That's right, said the voice, everything lets us down, everything.

Once I asked him what kind of women he liked. It was a stupid question, asked by an adolescent looking for something to say. But the Grub took it seriously and considered his reply for a long time. Finally he said, Calm women. And then he added, But only the dead are really calm. And after a while, Not even the dead, come to think of it.

Su voz sonó tranquila, como la de un hombre que sabe que la vida siempre acaba mal y que no vale la pena exaltarse...

He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.

I stood for a time, overlooking the calm sea. Under the bright morning sun, it looked like hammered blue metal. A very light breeze came off it and stirred my hair. I felt as if someone had spoken words aloud to me and I echoed them. "Time for a change." p. 103

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?

If he did not know the future, he appeared to, and by his calm assumption of foreknowledge, he swayed many of us to help him shape the future as he saw fit.

I just sat, feeling something inside me go very still. I hoped it was my heart.

Keep your temper. Nobody else wants it.

A heart at peace gives life to the body.

All things not at peace will cry out.

winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.

Tea is to heal.

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