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How to use the word tranquil in a Sentence?

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Precision of thought comes from a tranquil mindset. A presenter can have a competitive edge if they are unmoved by the jabs and provocations that are directed at them”

Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

Violent-crime increase — call it Ferguson Effect 2.0 or the Minneapolis Effect — has come on with a speed and magnitude that make Ferguson 1.0 seem tranquil, george Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police in late May was justly condemned — but the event has now spurred an outpouring of contempt against the pillars of law and order that has no precedent in American history.

Mac Donald

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Now too many see the protests as the problem. No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets: persistent, poisonousinequities and injustice, and please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Because I can show you that outraged citizens are what made the country what she is and led to any major milestone. To be honest, this is not a tranquil time.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

I was already in bed. I was in my place so we were expecting to have a tranquil night but suddenly ... everything breaks apart, glasses, furniture and everything.

Tuxtla Gutierrez

Found on CNN
6 years ago

A smooth and tranquil transition is almost more important than a free and fair election.

Suu Kyi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the first time in decades, our people will have a real chance of bringing about real change. This is a chance that we cannot afford to let slip, a smooth and tranquil transition is almost more important than a free and fair election.

Suu Kyi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Endless ocean, blue water, dreamy sky, tranquil beach, love in the air, mind fly high.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Be joyful, beautiful, tranquil like a tree.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Christian Nevell Bovee

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.

Maria Montessori

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

Anonymous

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Henry Ward Beecher

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr

added by anonymous
13 years ago

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

Anonymous

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.

Hung Tzu-ch'eng

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.'

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Epictetus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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