These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Life is such a fragile thing—as delicate and as beautiful as a butterfly, as ephemeral as a sunset. Death is peaceful. Death is quiet, silent. It is calming.
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.
A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
I want to tell her that this isn't 'love'. that 'love' doesn't stay the same, it changes like we do, it is shaped by our experiences, by what we do, who we meet, what we learn. I'd like to explain that falling in love now is not how it'll be forever,...
You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have...
So cry if you need to, but I can't stay to watch you. That's the wrong thing to do. Touch if you need to, but I can't stay to hold you. That's the wrong thing to do.Talk if you need to, but I can't stay to hear you. That's the wrong thing to do. Caus...
Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Je...
He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time.
An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart.
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
Advice is a stranger; if he's welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.
A man who becomes enchanted by the flower's fragrance stays only for a fleeting moment, but a man who comes because of love stays for a lifetime.
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
