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Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world. -- Kevin Flynn
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life. -- Hsing Yun
Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something. -- Clint Eastwood
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted? -- Sammy Sosa
After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. -- John Griffin Carlisle
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. -- Bill Cosby
Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. -- Philip K. Dick
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. -- Michael Korda
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. -- Caitlin Moran
We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. -- Viggo Mortensen
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling. -- Richard Dawkins
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -- Albert Schweitzer
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. -- Leon Foucault
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else. -- Peggy Noonan
I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O! -- Abraham Polonsky
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. -- Ernest Bevin
We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms. -- Vladimir Putin
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly. -- Caroline Knapp
Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented. -- Ellen G. White
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. -- Stanley Kubrick
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. -- Viggo Mortensen
Proceed calmly in life. -- Pope Francis
Can every anguish calmly bear. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
... for no change comes calmly over the world... -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I considered calmly that I was born to write. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way. -- Norman Vincent Peale
i drink caffeine" she said calmly "lot's of it gives you pep -- Ally Carter
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. -- Francis Bacon
They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly. -- Ravi Shankar
I face my future peacefully and calmly because I know I am enough -- Louise Hay
They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive. -- Ian Fleming
To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart. -- Gautama Buddha
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face. -- Boethius
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them! -- Oscar Wilde
The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly. -- Janusz Korczak
Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death. -- Rick Riordan
Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear To stack more dough more calmly this year. -- Daniel Dumile
Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path... -- Max Ehrmann
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. -- Edmund Wilson
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. -- Daniel Berrigan
Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market. -- Benjamin Graham
Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. -- Pietro Metastasio
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion. -- Charles Spurgeon
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent. -- Paulo Coelho
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God. -- Thomas Carlyle
I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings"¦ -- Mary MacLane
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops -- H. L. Mencken
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly -- George Eliot
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.... -- Ralph Waldo Trine
If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly. -- Aditya Ajmera
The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun. -- Heinrich Heine
Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed. -- Roger Williams
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar. -- Max Eastman
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world. -- John Calvin
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. -- Aristophanes
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. -- Francois Fenelon
you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I will be calmly active, actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on! -- Ben Jonson
I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. -- Nelson Algren
Do not let your conscience be clouded by unknown storms. Trust in the atmosphere of spirit that breathes so calmly deep within you at all times. -- Sean Patrick Brennan
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres. -- J. K. Bharavi
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership. -- Deng Xiaoping
Did you have a good journey from Derbyshire?" he asked"How was Cuthbert?""Cousin Cuthbert lives in Kent," she replied calmly"I was in Somerset with the Brothertons. -- Miranda Neville
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most). -- Pope Francis
Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly. -- Nelson Mandela
Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming. -- Swami Vivekananda
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am. -- M. C. Escher
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly. -- Terry Pratchett
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share. -- Walter Pater
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. -- Boethius
I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face. -- Henry Miller
but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway. -- Bret Easton Ellis
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences. -- Gene Wolfe
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. -- Ellis Peters
How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says what mountains? -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river. -- Paul Hamilton Hayne
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. -- Albert Camus
Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father's goodness would provide everything He needed. And the Father never failed Him. -- Derek Prince
I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me. -- Isabel Wolff
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!' -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. -- Ernest Bevin
I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly. -- Hamilton Leithauser
You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir. -- Terry Pratchett
Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation. -- Vladimir Putin
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent. -- Richard J. Foster

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