Calmness
The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.
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Calmness Quotations
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Pope John XXIII
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
Stone Gossard
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
Charles Babbage
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Robert Smithson
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
James Anthony Froude
Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.
Giorgio Napolitano
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
Clarence Clemons
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida
Calmness is the cradle of power.
J. G. Holland
The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.
Jason Giambi
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Calmness Translations
calmness in German is Stille
calmness in Hungarian is nyugalom
calmness in Swedish is stillhet
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