Calmly Quotes
184 quotes by 162 authors
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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no…
— Franz Kafka
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What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories." "You hate the Silent Brothers," protested…
— Cassandra Clare
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Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense…
— Terry Pratchett
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After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike…
— Frank Beddor
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I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull:…
— Jim Butcher
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The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen…
— Rick Riordan
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Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.
— Rick Riordan
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but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I handed the test in five minutes before the end of the day. Mrs. Baker took it calmly, then reached into her bottom drawer for…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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Come work for me, and I’ll tell you.†My eyes went to his. “You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man, 
— Kim Harrison
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She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a…
— Anne Stuart
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... for no change comes calmly over the world...
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to…
— Charles Dickens
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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be…
— Oscar Wilde
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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing…
— Virginia Woolf
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I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly…
— L.A. Meyer
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...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied…
— David Eddings
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