Calm Quotes
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Tags: Liberty, Men ✍ Author: Thomas JeffersonThere was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.
Tags: May, Time ✍ Author: Robert CailliauBe like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Tags: Duck, Surface ✍ Author: Michael CaineThe pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Tags: Best, Pursuit ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillSooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
Tags: Big, Learn ✍ Author: Dennis EckersleyOne day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.
Tags: Again, Serious ✍ Author: Victor GarberIt was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
Tags: Able, Inner ✍ Author: Stephen GardinerWriters seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
Tags: Life, Thinking ✍ Author: Helen GarnerI don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Tags: Able, Simple ✍ Author: Zaha HadidLet us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.
Tags: Help, Others ✍ Author: Josefa IloiloI grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
Tags: Tension, Together ✍ Author: JRI never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
Tags: Felt, Life ✍ Author: Angelina JolieThe most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Tags: Leave, Sense ✍ Author: Carl JungI feel calm when I'm on my own.
✍ Author: Ray LaMontagneThe thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Tags: Hard, Love ✍ Author: Rafael NadalThe man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Tags: Sea, Shipwreck ✍ Author: James OtisThe moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Tags: Good, Temper ✍ Author: Francois de La RochefoucauldBanking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Tags: Business, Until ✍ Author: Al-Waleed bin TalalPeople think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
Tags: Angry, Music ✍ Author: Serj TankianGood acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
Tags: Acting, Good ✍ Author: Bryn TerfelThe language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Tags: Best, Language ✍ Author: Henry David ThoreauVisit partners pages
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Tags: Few, Successful ✍ Author: Henry David ThoreauGreat events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Tags: Great, Quiet ✍ Author: Queen VictoriaObviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Tags: Clever, Social ✍ Author: Lech WalesaThe seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Tags: Give, Quiet ✍ Author: Edmund WallerGod never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Tags: God, Quiet ✍ Author: Izaak WaltonRemain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Tags: Easy, Yourself ✍ Author: Paramahansa YoganandaIf the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
Tags: Humor, Strong ✍ Author: Oleksandr ZhuravliovI am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.
Tags: Circuit, Home ✍ Author: Jean AlesiI meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.
Tags: Place, Within ✍ Author: Roseanne BarrI practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
Tags: Beginning, Time ✍ Author: Martha BeckMaybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Tags: Cool, Service ✍ Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
Tags: Her, Light ✍ Author: William C. BryantI love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.
Tags: Love, Summer ✍ Author: Jeremy BullochWhen I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
Tags: Mom, Used ✍ Author: Steve BurnsIn the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.
Tags: Car, Off ✍ Author: Jenson ButtonPower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Tags: Power, Strength ✍ Author: Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonI long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
Tags: Able, Green ✍ Author: Cyril ClarkeThe secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Tags: Life, Success ✍ Author: Cyril ConnollyCalm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
Tags: Strength, Thought ✍ Author: Billy CorganI want to be calm.
✍ Author: Courteney CoxI urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
Tags: Civil, Country ✍ Author: Larry CraigAs a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
Tags: Energy, Mother ✍ Author: Penelope CruzEntertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
Tags: Done, Question ✍ Author: Caleb CushingI feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
Tags: Lived, Rest ✍ Author: Moshe DayanI really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
Tags: Away, Love ✍ Author: Sarah DessenTell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
Tags: Bad, Tell ✍ Author: Indra DeviMany critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .
Tags: Storm, Why ✍ Author: James Thomas FieldsHaving plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
Tags: Morning, Nature ✍ Author: Nicola FormichettiThe recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.
Tags: End, Give ✍ Author: Timothy GeithnerI learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
Tags: Learned, Walk ✍ Author: Seth GodinLet's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.
Tags: Happened, Market ✍ Author: Chuck GrassleyI don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.
Tags: Book, Sense ✍ Author: Lev GrossmanWatch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Tags: Behavior, Mind ✍ Author: Henepola GunaratanaI began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.
Tags: End, Exercise ✍ Author: Mariel HemingwayBe calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Tags: Makes, Truth ✍ Author: George HerbertI'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
Tags: Best, Full ✍ Author: Alfred HitchcockThe British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Tags: Crisis, Talent ✍ Author: Franklin JonesI was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'
Tags: Behind, Thought ✍ Author: Toby JonesI normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.
Tags: Energy, Love ✍ Author: Gayle KingEverybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Tags: Him, Personal ✍ Author: Andre KostelanetzIn golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.
Tags: Golf, Patient ✍ Author: Heikki KovalainenNo - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.
Tags: Game, Time ✍ Author: Vladimir KramnikYou have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
Tags: Between, Heart ✍ Author: Chris KyleHe who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Tags: Hero, Word ✍ Author: Johann Kaspar LavaterMany a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
Tags: Begins, Sea ✍ Author: Mikhail LermontovI think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.
Tags: Shy, True ✍ Author: Leona LewisSince the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
Tags: Thinking, Try ✍ Author: Cory LidleI've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
Tags: Possible, Try ✍ Author: Gary LockeI feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.
Tags: Saying, Time ✍ Author: Pauline MaroisI can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.
Tags: America, Democratic ✍ Author: Cynthia McKinneyI have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.
Tags: Time, Whatever ✍ Author: Christina MilianI believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.
Tags: Dog, Happy ✍ Author: Cesar MillanWe are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Tags: Ignorance, Learn ✍ Author: Paul Elmer MorePart of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.
Tags: Cool, Sometimes ✍ Author: Dee Dee MyersYou arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Tags: Hear, Village ✍ Author: Yannick NoahI'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character.
Tags: Character, Energy ✍ Author: Guy PearceI still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'
Tags: Cry, Possible ✍ Author: Katy PerryI've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.
Tags: Amazing, Best ✍ Author: Kevin PietersenFrench is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
Tags: Makes, Speak ✍ Author: Bernard PivotCalm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Tags: Greed, Living ✍ Author: Harry PollittI was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.
Tags: Experience, Started ✍ Author: Gloria ReubenFor there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Tags: Friend, Weather ✍ Author: Christina RossettiAs a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
Tags: Adversity, Face ✍ Author: Steven SeagalBy putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.
Tags: Sure, Work ✍ Author: Donna ShalalaThe rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
Tags: King, Off ✍ Author: Gary Sheffield