Calm Quotes - Page 40

• Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

  Anthony Douglas

  Mother, Soul, Comfort

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• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  Oren Peli

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "'Paranormal Activity's' Oren Peli on Scares, Spielberg and 'The River's' Pricey Pilot (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2012.

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• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

  Arthur Ashe

  Powerful, Boys, Virginia

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• Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

  Alexander Pope

  Heart, Gay, Joy

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.59

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• Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Meditation, Sage, Wealth

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Water, Mind, Shelley

  'To Jane: The Recollection'

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• It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Fall, Energy, Needs

  "Bob Odenkirk on the Final Days of Breaking Bad". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• La'  , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute  , Luxe, calme et volupte  . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Order, Voluptuous, Lush

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• Let the gym be a sanctuary for you to be at peace. Let it calm you and ground you and allow you to appreciate everything around you. Let it also be a place for you to unload and explode with intensity through your training.

  Robert Cheeke

  Appreciate, Training, Sanctuary

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.61, Book Publishing Company

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• Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Age, Haste, Youth

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.16

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• Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

  Lucretius

  Sea, Never Trust, Shows

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• Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

  Lucretius

  Calm Mind, Care, Guests

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

  Boris Pasternak

  Echoes, Air, Ears

  1958 When It Clears Up (translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater).

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• O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Clouds, Wind, Heaven

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings”, p.6, Stanford University Press

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Grandmother, People

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• During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say 'Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.' But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.

  Jessie J

  Song, Team, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Self, People

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.148, Parlor Press LLC

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• Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Calm Mind, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 589), 1895.

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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Past, Expectations

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Acting, Playing Someone

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

  Rose Leslie

  Thinking, Doe, Nerves

  "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

  Anthony Shadid

  Believe, Artist, Glasses

  Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

  Adam Nicolson

  Children, Book, Long

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