After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
Clive James
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Michel de Montaigne
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.
Thomas Kempis
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
Peter Stuyvesant
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
Motion is tranquility.
Stirling Moss
Movement is tranquility.
Stirling Moss
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Jack Levine
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
Mike Honda
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
Robert Toombs
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
Arundhati Roy
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