A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that… — George Linley Copy Share Image
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism… — George Will Copy Share Image
"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past… — Abigail Adams 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
Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
