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
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
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 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
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
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got… — Joan Sutherland 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
I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and… — Elana Meyers 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
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
He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I… — Brian Eno 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
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
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
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
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
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
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young… — Jim Morrison 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
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
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
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
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
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov 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
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
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
