Calmly Quotes
184 quotes by 165 authors
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There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the discovery of…
— Pope Francis
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One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and…
— Michael Korda
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This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death,…
— Margaret Visser
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The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to…
— Samuel Adams
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Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you…
— Sara Zarr
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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power…
— Leon Foucault
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Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.
— Pietro Metastasio
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The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
— Heinrich Heine
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It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering…
— John A. Macdonald
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Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path...
— Max Ehrmann
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They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
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Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those…
— H P Lovecraft
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Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as…
— Hsing Yun
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The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always…
— Bill Cosby
Who Wrote These Calmly Quotes
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