Quotes About Peaceful

I went to the door and looked out. The cool night breeze was blowing peacefully down the hall. No excited neighbors hung out of doorways. A small gun had gone off and broken a pane of glass, but noises like that don't mean much any more.

The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...

The end of the world was wind-scoured but peaceful, black cormorants and red starfish on wave-washed dark rocks below a sandy bluff, and beyond them all the sea spreading far and then farther.

sensación de que había flotado

OUR STATE OF mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behaviour in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon

The only news he wanted to hear was that people had become a little sensible and decent and peace- ful; he disliked this Cup-Tie attitude, in which people took sides for the sake of excitement, and rooted for their team to win without any sense of responsibility. This passion for vicarious belligerence! Obviously neither of them really believed that anything unpleasant would happen to them, and the bogey of being stoned by strikers was only evoked for the sake of a little uncostly excitement.

I might retort that such hostility as I or other atheists occasionally voice towards religion is limited to words. I am not going to bomb anybody, behead them, stone them, burn them at the stake, crucify them, or fly planes into their skyscrapers, just because of a theological disagreement.

The dirt," he says, his voice strangely peaceful. "What about it?" she asks. "It's dirty.

Above all, her transformation of China was carried out without her engaging in violence and with relatively little upheaval.

A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.

Too bad evil people sometimes live in peaceful towns

She's quiet. She hates confrontation. She'll walk halfway around the world to avoid an argument.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

how peaceful a bedroom is without a man in it.

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.