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Calm Quotes - Page 9

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.133

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.54, Broadway Books

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart”

Pressure is calming to the nervous system.

Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.238, Princeton University Press

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”