Quotes About Calm Seas

#1. 'I promise you calm seas,' " Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, " 'auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.'

Connie Willis

#2. The courage to press on regardless
regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us
is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

John C. Bogle

#3. There was never an age considered old enough to know everything. The calm seas of hell were only a break before the next storm.

Jaxson Kidman

#4. Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Bill Hybels

#5. Calm seas never made a good sailor

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

Robin Hobb

#7. They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.

Rupert Brooke

#8. He who knows, knows not. He who knows not, knows.

Laozi

#9. If her hormones had a face, she would slap it.

Melissa Grey

#10. The woman he couldn't ethically fuck, he wanted to fuck six ways to Sunday without a single socially acceptable barrier between them.

Elizabeth Finn

#11. Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,

Ramachandra Guha

#13. There are some things we learn on stormy seas that we never learn on calm smooth waters. The "God of the Storm" has something to teach us, and His love always drives His actions.

Danny L. Deaube

#14. A truly humble apology works to part storm clouds, calm rough seas, and bring on the soft lights of dawn; it has the power to change a person's world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

John Milton

#16. I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Jean Giraudoux

#17. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Edmund Waller