“It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.”
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Calm Quotes — page 271 of 276
“Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured.”
“It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.”
“I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, ‘Stay calm and carry on.’”
“At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?”
“Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.”
“I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.”
“Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.”
“I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.”
“Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon”
“Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.”
“At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water”
“Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!”
“First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.”
“The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.”
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”
“What are the two of you whispering about?” Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes narrow with suspicion. “If I wanted you to know, I’d have spoken louder,” she said calmly. He turned away muttering what she was sure were more blasphemies about annoying females. “You must make the priest weary with the length of your confessions,” she said. He raised one eyebrow. “Who says I confess anything?”
“Look for the beauty in things.”
“The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.”
“Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?”