Quotes of Tranquil - somelinesforyou

“ It was just very peaceful. ”

- Ellen Ochoa

“ Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ”

- Jacob Braude

“ It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. ”

- Robert D. Ballard

“ The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ”

- Izaak Walton

“ Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste. ”

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

“ That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. ”

- Unknown

“ The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. ”

- Unknown

“ As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath. ”

- Unknown

“ Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. ”

- Paramahansa Yogananda

“ Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. ”

- W. Gladden

“ Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. ”

- Florida Scott Maxwell

“ Sometimes God calms the storm. At other times, he calms the sailor. And sometimes he makes us swim. ”

- Unknown

“ Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many. ”

- Plato

“ Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ”

- Queen Victoria

“ Patience is that calm and unruffled temper with which a good man bears the evils of life. ”

- John Robinson

“ Resting becomes a discipline in itself. ”

- Placido Domingo

“ Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much. ”

- Nigel Mansell

“ Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte. ”

- Francis Parkman

“ All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever. ”

- Ethel Lynn Beers

“ To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it. ”

- Greg Norman

“ Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to. ”

- Graham Nash

“ Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ”

- Jacob Braude

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

- Edmund Waller

“ Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson
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