Placidly Quotes

#1. Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!

Mabel Osgood Wright

#2. What's all the row over at Ben's?" [Mrs. Ide] inquired, placidly, from her comfortable chair.
"Rustlers, cattle, foremen, sheriffs, and Heaven only knows what," replied Hettie, distractedly.

Zane Grey

#3. People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Isabel Burton

#4. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#7. And yet she feels no pain and watches placidly as the Smiling Man is enveloped in a mass of hair that tears him into pieces.

Rin Chupeco

#8. The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.

Virginia Woolf

#9. The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows

Hope Mirrlees

#10. Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence ...

Max Ehrmann

#11. There are many difficulties inherent in a teleological view of creation, said Parker placidly.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Jack London

#13. Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

Srikumar Rao

#14. I placidly wait for what I don't know-
My future and the future of everything.
In the end there will only be silence except
Where the waves of the sea bathe nothing.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Robert Plant

#16. So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?"
"Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?"
"It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly.

Agatha Christie

#17. Hoping like hell she was wrong about Dominic, and he was just a secretive man with a strange skin disorder.

Isabelle Rowan

#18. I feel again the hunger to let go of my striving and find the ability to become content and still, intentionally "superfluous," as writer Helen M. Luke puts it. I want a refuge from my old conquering self.

Sue Monk Kidd

#19. I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Augusto Pinochet

#20. Sometimes,indeed, the Lord purposely leaves his children, withdraws the divine inflowings of his grace, and permits them to begin to sink, in order that they may understand that faith is not their own work.
(Sermon, "Mr. fearing comforted")

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. another growl at his back. Then she looked again at the typescript

Maggie O'Farrell

#22. In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.

Nick Woodman

#23. I'm not cocky. But I'm very confident.

Frank Thomas

#24. Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

John Brown

#25. Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

Thomas Piketty

#26. In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

Julia Cameron

#27. I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.

James Heckman