Placid Quotes

42 quotes by 39 authors

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching… — Harlan Coben
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;… — Edward Gargan
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the… — Lytton Strachey
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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 to be absolutely… — Joan Sutherland
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,… — George Eliot
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must… — Dawn Powell
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led… — Mark Steyn
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle… — Eva Le Gallienne
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight,… — William Wordsworth
My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid. — Patti Page
There is a mean streak to authentic self-control. Underneath what seems to be the placid demeanor of those who are not ruled by their desires… — Edward T Welch
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid… — Isak Dinesen
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid… — Carl Sagan
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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