Quotes About Peaceful

My folks have a cottage north of Kingston, which is literally in the middle of nowhere, and I can be there very happily for like a week.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.

When there is not a breath of wind, the waters sometimes shudder as if from inside and take on the finish of washed silk.

Sometimes Füsun yawned so beautifully that I would think that she had forgotten the entire world and that she was drawing from the depths of her soul a more peaceful life, as one might draw cold water from a well on a hot summer day.

Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time

It was a peaceful scene in the little garden. The heat was trapped there, reflected off the soft, flaky red brick of the walls, and the air was drowsy with the sound of bees, attracted by the marigolds and lavender which had been planted there to fetch them; for fruit will not be born without the bee, and the garden was given over to fruit. All

There is all the world of difference between the invasive use of force, on the one hand, and the peaceful but assertive refusal to interact, on the other. Indeed, in the entire realm of political philosophy, there is scarcely a distinction more important to make, nor one easier to make. Nevertheless, for many people, the distinction between these two concepts is hard to discern. This is all the more reason to make it clearly and repetitively.

naturally incorporate the wisdom of peaceful harmony that's found in the martial arts by letting the efforts of others become a source of your own power.

Senators undertake to disturb us... by reminding us of the possibility of large numbers swarming from China; but the answer to all this is very obvious and very simple. If the Chinese come here, they will come for citizenship or merely for labor. If they come for citizenship, then in this desire do they give a pledge of loyalty to our institutions; and where is the peril in such vows? They are peaceful and industrious; how can their citizenship be the occasion of solicitude?

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

There's no need to threaten or bellow. I intend to discuss this quietly and rationally, or I won't discuss it at all. I'm asking you how to handle the dissolution with a minimum of fuss

At least God never showed his face in Iceland. Olie tells me it wasn't even created by him. No wonder it's the most peaceful country in the world.

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

Our Constitution does not secure the peaceful transition of power, but rather presupposes it.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

When a life ebbs away, it is peaceful and painless.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

a smile is peaceful and can be a start to frienship

The Pacific Ocean waters were cool.