Calm Quotes

If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. (Pythagoras)
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Vows made in storm forgotten in calm. View quote
Thomas Fuller
After a storm comes a calm. View quote
Matthew Henry
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. View quote
Willa Cather
In a calm sea every man is a pilot. View quote
John Ray
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. View quote
George Herbert
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
This violence is a calm that disturbs you. View quote
Jean Genet
For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. View quote
Christina Rossetti
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. (Edith Wharton)
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative...and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film -- it's interesting in that way. View quote
Tobin Bell
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that. View quote
Angelina Jolie
A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing for him to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. View quote
Joseph Addison
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say. View quote
Václav Havel
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still. View quote
William Wordsworth
Times glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. View quote
William Shakespeare
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock