Calmly Quotes

184 Calmly quotes by 162 unique authors

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this… — Philip K. Dick
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches… — Stanley Kubrick
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I… — Viggo Mortensen
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training… — Susan Orlean
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if… — Albert Schweitzer
Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the… — Ellen G. White
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — H. L. Mencken
In Brueghelâ€™s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was… — Roald Dahl
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it… — Virginia Woolf
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian… — Joseph Heller
you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret — Rainer Maria Rilke
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for… — Barbara Kingsolver
From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would… — Banana Yoshimoto
You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?â€ called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. â€œAbove such brutality, are you?â€ â€œWe both know that there are… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be… — Terry Pratchett
They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive. — Ian Fleming
No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily… — Jodi Picoult

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