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Calm Quotes

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor Frankenstein.

The idea that the military would be called in to dominate and to suppress what, for the most part, were peaceful protests – admittedly, where some had opportunistically turned them violent – and that the military would somehow come in and calm that situation was very dangerous to me.

– Martin Dempsey

Former US Joint Chiefs if Staff Chairman.

I’ve been extraordinarily concerned about the rhetoric that’s been used by you. It’s been inflammatory, and it’s not okay for that officer to choke George Floyd to death. But we have to call for calm. We have to have police reform called for.

– J. B. Pritzker

Illinois Gov. to President Trump in phone call.

This was a charade that in some ways was meant to bolster a message that does nothing to calm – to calm the soul and to reassure the nation that we can recover from this moment, which is what we need from a President.

– Mariann Budde

Episcopal Bishop of Washington on Donald Trump’s strongman speech and use of police, pepper balls and smoke canisters to force peaceful protesters off streets so he could walk to St. John’s Church and be pictured holding a bible.

We’re just having a bit of an earthquake here. Quite a decent shake here, if you see things moving behind me.

– Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand Premier calmly continues live TV interview as quake strikes.

It felt like we were in a bubble and we were the calm ones.

– Niall Horan

1D member reveals that becoming so famous while still being so young didn’t phase the group.

One of my most important ‘Secrets of Adulthood’: Outer order contributes to inner calm.

– Gretchen Rubin

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can’t and you must be calm.

– Heikki Kovalainen

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

– Gloria Reuben

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

– Henry Rollins

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it’s really a nice break, when you’re writing super intense stuff like ‘Coldtown’, to be able to write something a little lighter – calm down and do something different.

– Holly Black

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

– Henry David Thoreau

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

– Henepola Gunaratana

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

– Jean Genet

Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen who gets a speeding ticket or has an argument with his spouse… and doesn’t have the whole world know.

– George Zimmerman

When all this fame first comes, it’s like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it’s going, you’ll be okay. Then you become more relaxed.

– Julia Roberts

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

– Indra Devi

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what’s happened – almost to calm themselves.

– Helen Garner

As a comic and as a nurse, it’s important to look calm on the surface when you’re absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it’s important to make that person feel that you’re in control.

– Jo Brand

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

– Jules Renard

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

– Jonathan Kozol

Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it’s just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

– Inbee Park

I’ve been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.

– John Mackey

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

– Jane Seymour

Keep calm you’re only 60.

– Unknown

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

– Izaak Walton

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn’t require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

– Joyce Carol Oates

The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

– Julia Roberts

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

– JR

I feel the happiest when I’m at the golf course. And I feel calm when I’m on the golf course. I think I’m just a much better person when I’m on the golf course.

– Inbee Park

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