#calm

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #calm #chimney #commonest #corner

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 resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ↗

— Edmund Waller

#give #more #passions #quiet #seas

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#down #even #friendliness #i #like

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#clever #dormant #erupt #ingenious #later

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#beyond #calmer #done #future #got

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

#breadth #broad #calm #death #delicious

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#calmness #nothing #than

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#calm #deliberately #down #eventually #good