Quotes About Calm Waters

#1. I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Austen

#2. Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
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Growing weak on the separate mountains
Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.

Friedrich Holderlin

#3. A good ship is never tested in calm waters.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#4. For the boat in a lake to be able to appreciate the calm waters, it must know the giant waves of the oceans!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

Margaret Of Valois

#6. Hey, Brother, did you know?
You were one corrupt,
Perfectly white flower
Yearning for it's own reflection
In the calm waters...

Yuki Kaori

#7. Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Peace is but the absence of war. War and conflict form the sea through which nation-states swim. Some who have had the fortune to find clear, calm waters believe otherwise. They have forgotten that war is momentum. War is natural. And war makes one strong.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#9. On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appears.

Bryant McGill

#10. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself - begin to have spiritual discernment.

Oswald Chambers

#11. You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

Daniel Glattauer

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

Deepak Chopra

#13. The storms come and it's water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don't suppose this storm will be any different.

Lisa Wingate

#14. In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

Max Von Sydow

#15. Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

Frank Zappa

#16. The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Patti Smith

#17. Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.

Wayne Muller

#18. In a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

Vladimir Nabokov

#19. I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.

Leslye Walton

#20. Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.

Julian May

#21. Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.

Pearl Zhu

#22. To grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water's edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by me. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. When Jesus walks the waters of the sea, how profound the calm!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. I contempleted the lake; the waters were placid, all around was calm and the snowy mountains ... the calm and heavenly scene restored me and I continued my journey toward Geneva.

Mary Shelley

#25. When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm.

Francis De Sales

#26. In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

F.T. McKinstry

#27. There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#28. It would be like eating your favorite food. At first, it would be great but after a while you wouldn't want it anymore. It wouldn't taste as good.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#29. Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Dickens

#30. 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

#31. It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

Edwidge Danticat

#32. Calm your waters,

Erin Hunter

#33. Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#34. Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

Vikram Seth

#35. Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

Stefan Molyneux