Calm Surface Quotes

#1. Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.

Paula Hawkins

#2. Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

Kathleen McDonald

#4. There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple.

Zoe Heller

#5. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Michael Caine

#6. Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

Amy Ephron

#7. For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

Theodor Mommsen

#8. The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

John Wesley

#9. The cold surface somehow enabled him to remain calm; he kept his eyes upon the summit, awaiting the arrival of reinforcements. The pace of his breathing remained steady, as did his pulse; it was in such moments men came of age; 'the night is ours, the night is ours', Jelani whispered.

A.H. Septimius

#10. 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

#11. Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

Laozi

#12. Mother always said he was like a lake, calm on the surface though a powerful current rumbled beneath. Tristan, meanwhile, was the ocean - his feelings frothed and foamed on the surface, crashing like waves into every situation.

Karen Hawkins

#13. The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can't be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

Erin Hunter

#14. A hard pain it Munro's spine as it lurched into an awkward curve, arching his back off the surface where he lay. Muscles contracted, jerking and releasing, jerking and releasing. The calm voices grew insistent and frenzied, but in a controlled, orchestrated way.

India Drummond

#15. The bottom of a lake we cannot see, because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided, and the water is calm.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself.

Arthur Martine

#17. To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.

Amanda Craig

#18. Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

Andrew Harvey

#19. Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. The chaos is on the surface.

Amit Ray

#20. Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

Daisaku Ikeda

#21. As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

Alexander Skarsgard

#22. Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell

Dan Brown

#23. Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Gene Hackman

#25. Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.

Axl Rose

#26. Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.

Jacob M. Braude

#27. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.

Sun Yung Shin

#28. Be like a duck . . . keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Unknown

Jolene Brackey

#29. Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

Francois Mauriac

#30. This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.

Kenneth Eade

#31. So his life has flowed
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill
May hover round its surface, glides in light,
And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

#32. Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#33. On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Jules Verne

#34. Though introverts look calm on the surface, our brains are bubbling with activity, and thus we require less external stimulation than extroverts.

Adam S. McHugh

#35. Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.

Michael Caine

#36. Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Deepak Chopra

#37. To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck
paddling, paddling, paddling.

Scott Stossel

#38. The silence surged back, smoothing itself as black water smooths to its old surface calm over a dropped stone.

Sylvia Plath