Placid Quotes
Placid Quote of the day
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And then the tenth one is the more placid, character-based one.
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...