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
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things… — Herman Melville 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
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
I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
I was still in the college and they told me I should try it. At the time, I still thought I was… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor… — Euripides Copy Share Image
In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as… — Elana Meyers 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
“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
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never… — Eva Le Gallienne 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
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
