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• Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Fire, Liberty

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• How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

  John Flanagan

  Helping, Terrified, Ifs

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

  Andrew Carnegie

  Home, Dark, Light

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• Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

  Norton Juster

  Beautiful, Country, Night

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, www.theguardian.com. 1961.

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• People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cells, Two Sides, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

  Walt Whitman

  Ocean, Sleep, Storm

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.288, NYU Press

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• To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Daughter, Running, Atheist

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Remember, Telling The Truth

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He pulls me into his arms, his touch calm and soothing, but unable to erase the truth. "I have to go," he finally whispers. "But Ever, if you want to love me, if you truly want to be with me, then you'll have to accept what we are. I'll understand if you can't.

  Alyson Noel

  Want, Arms, Accepting

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Evermore”, p.311, Pan Macmillan

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• I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

  Russell Brand

  Drama, Cutting, Blood

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• She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn’t the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Ferrari, Speed

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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• A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, World, Found

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• In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Mother, Voice, Difficult

  Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1997). “The Silver Gryphon”, p.211, Penguin

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• I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

  Jane Austen

  Mistress

  Jane Austen (1833). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.310

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• I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

  Michael Cunningham

  Brother, Moving, Heart

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• As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.

  Charlaine Harris

  Memories, Men, Waiting

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.178, Penguin

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• Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Fall, Doe, Letters

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Skins, Smooth Skin

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• When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Acceptance, Brave

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• The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.

  Kate Morton

  Beautiful, Heart, Acceptance

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• I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still can't." "The trap of LUUUUVVVV, I thought sarcastically. But he was too serious, too calm, to mock.

  Charlaine Harris

  Queens, Serious, Traps

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, May

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello Retold In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.94, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

  Henning Mankell

  Writing, Night, Sky

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 23, 2016

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• Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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