Tranquility Quotes

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure."
-Matsuo Basho

"Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility."
-Hermann Hesse

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
-William Wordsworth

"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
-Cicero

"I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was."
-Shirley Hufstedler

"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

"Their intent is to trample our Constitution. Their goal is not our domestic tranquility, it is our destruction. If it's a war the anarchists want, then damn it, it will start here."
-Jim Gilchrist

"He gives the impression of tranquility, yes, ... But there's a great depth of personality there, and a sort of fatherliness. You definitely feel that you ought to take his advice."
-Greg Bender

"Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope."
-Robert Veninga

"Argentina has finally given a sign of tranquility, and the market felt free to rise. Investors also got some good news on our primary budget surplus, which is an important factor for foreigners."
-Helio Ozaki

"Movement is tranquility."
-Stirling Moss

"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility."
-Kwame Nkrumah

"If the borough of Manhattan was peaceful, but there was a car bomb in Brooklyn every day, it's tough to talk about the tranquility."
-Jackie Spinner

"When it's taken away from you like it was him, the feeling you have for the game grows a little bit inside you. You find out what it means to you, and that your tranquility, and your most enjoyment is between those lines."
-Greg Knapp

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed."
-Neil Armstrong