Placid Quotes
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Placid Quotes & Sayings
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Who do you think is lying to us?" Shevek demanded. Placid, Bedap met his gaze. "Who, brother? Who but ourselves? — Ursula K. Le Guin
Placid, adj.Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. — David Levithan
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.
— Joan Sutherland
We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.
— Rand Olson
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
— Edgar Allan Poe
He was such a beautiful baby, and so placid. Then he grew up. It was an unfortunate development.
— K.Z. Snow
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!
— Phyllis Diller
Tolerance is a placid contempt.
— Mason Cooley
My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.
— Patti Page
So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.
— Steve Martin
But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean.
— Sherri Gaillard
The placid hopelessness of adulthood. The complex regret.
— David Foster Wallace
Placid waters hide lethal currents.
— Susan Cummins Miller
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom ... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
— Tallulah Bankhead
She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.
— Sherwood Anderson
A lot of people ... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
— Howard Hodgkin
I'm like those placid dogs a family buys when the dog they choose first is too high strung. I'm the pet's pet.
— Susan Mallery
Upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful. Eighteen years!
— Charles Dickens
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
— Anton Chekhov
So much simplicity with so much understanding - so mild, and yet so resolute - a mind so placid, and a life so active.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
