There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The very same person can, at the very same time, seem at peace to some people, and depressed or even suicidal to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid! — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even… — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
