I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet… — Dawn Powell 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
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander… — George Eliot 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
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet… — Horace 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
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because… — Vera Nazarian 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
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
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
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
We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,… — Carl Sagan 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
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 are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive… — Margaret Mead 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
