Calm famous quotes
03-25-2025
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
-- Izaak Walton -
We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.
-- Jack Hyles -
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
-- Jack Welch -
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
-- Jackee Harry -
Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
-- Jane Austen -
A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
-- Jane Goodall -
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.
-- Jane Seymour -
I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.
-- Jean Alesi -
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
-- Jean Rhys -
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse -
I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.
-- Jennifer Beals -
YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me. "Dude, calm down, I'll wash it afterward. It's probably dishwasher safe.
-- Jenny Lawson -
Nothing can disturb the calm peace of my soul.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.
-- Joan Rivers -
Listening to music that I hate calms me down.
-- Joey Comeau -
True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.
-- Johann Peter Eckermann -
Get still, get calm, and let your true self out.
-- John Douillard -
Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.
-- John H. Groberg -
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.
-- John McGahern -
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
-- John Muir -
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
-- John Muir -
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
-- Jose Marti -
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors...
-- Joseph Pilates -
music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
-- Joseph Stalin -
I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.
-- Juan Ramon Jimenez -
I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise
-- Kelly Hoppen -
The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm
-- Kevin DeYoung -
Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.
-- Kevin Nealon -
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
-- Kirby Larson -
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
-- Krista Tippett -
Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness.
-- Leon Brown -
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
-- Lisa Gardner -
Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.
-- Lolo Jones -
I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.
-- Louise Hay -
Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.
-- Lucy Freeman -
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
-- Lyonel Feininger -
The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together.
-- Lyoto Machida -
if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
-- Maira Kalman -
Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
-- Margaret Atwood -
I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.
-- Mariano Rivera -
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.
-- Martha Beck -
I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, ‘Stay calm and carry on.’
-- Mary Cain -
We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.
-- Mary Karr -
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.
-- Matthew Pearl -
Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.
-- Maya Rudolph -
In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
-- Moshe Dayan -
He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.
-- Nathanael West -
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
-- Neko Case -
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.
-- Nhat Hanh -
Sometimes God calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and He calms you
-- Nicky Gumbel -
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
-- Novak Djokovic -
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.
-- Pauline Marois -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
-- Queen Victoria -
Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.
-- Richard Grasso -
I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'
-- Richard Serra -
When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.
-- Robert Adams -
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.
-- Robert Breault -
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
-- Rupert Brooke -
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.
-- Sela Ward -
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.
-- Shantideva -
My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
-- Shawn Johnson -
I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through.
-- Shiloh Fernandez -
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
-- Steven Herrick -
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
-- Tacitus -
They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.
-- Thomas Chalmers -
I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'
-- Toby Jones
