Lulls Quotes:

Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

- Paul Reiser

source: Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.137, Bantam

topic: Quiet, Problem, Lulls

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Mind, Despair, Indifference, Lulls, Narcotics

...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost.

- Charlie Chaplin

source: "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

topic: Beautiful, Kindness, Hate, Geese, Lulls

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Cute, Stress And Anxiety, Stress Relieving

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter, Humour And Laughter, Lulls

Why should poetry have to make sense?

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Should, Make Sense, Lulls

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Philosophical, Love Is, Needs, Lulls, Wicked World

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Goes On, Might, Wells, Lulls

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Remember You, Remembers You, Stoops, Lulls

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Lonely, Travel, Adventure, Lonely Places, Lulls

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Actors, Want, Fads, Lulls

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

- Bill Gates

source: Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

topic: Overestimate, Lulls, Estimating

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

- Hammond Innes

topic: Sea, Boat, Danger, Mariners, Nautical

ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

- E. M. Broner

topic: Order, Certainty, Ritual, Lulls

Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Men, Knowing, Names, Lulls

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

- Mark Twain

topic: Artist, Waiting, Messages, Lulls

When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

- M. L. Stedman

source: M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Lying, Dark, Dark Dreams, Lulls

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

topic: Truth, Spring, Institutions, Lulls

Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

- Gerry Lopez

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Moving On, Make Your Move, Lulls

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

- Georges Bernanos

topic: Mother, War, Lying, Lulls

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

- Hartley Coleridge

source: Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

topic: Men, May, Thunder, Lulls, Grasshoppers

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

- Martin Short

topic: Fun, Hate, Thinking, Lulls

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.856

topic: Sleep, Names, Shade, Lulls

The market likes to lull you into the false security of high success rate techniques, which often lose disastrously in the long run. The general idea is that what works most of the time is nearly the opposite of what works in the long run.

- William Eckhardt

topic: Running, Opposites, Ideas, Lulls

I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.

- Morena Baccarin

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: America, Years, Tvs, Lulls, Moonstruck

Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.

- James Russell Lowell

source: James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

topic: Letting Go, Song, Rain, Gout, Lulls

The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

- Reginald Heber

source: Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.97

topic: Summer, Spring, Flower, Spring May, Lulls

The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy glade; The Sun that from his amber bower rejoiceth on his way, The Moon and Stars, their Master's name in silent pomp display.

- Reginald Heber

source: Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

topic: Morning, Nature, Stars, Lulls, Drowsy

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

- Robert Montgomery

source: Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

topic: Lulls, Vast Ocean

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.

- Cornell Woolrich

topic: Strong, Fear, Breathing, Lulls

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

topic: Food, Smell, Hot, Lulls, Drowsy

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Flower, Wine, Sleep, Lulls, Fiery

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

- Eva Ibbotson

source: "A Song for Summer".

topic: Summer, Flower, Air, Iridescent, Holland

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

topic: Nature, Sleep, Night, Uneasy, Sound Sleep

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Golf, Men, Lightning, Looking Away, Lulls

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

- Pat Summitt

topic: Sports, Ambitious, Way, Lulls

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

- Cary Fukunaga

source: Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

topic: People, Should, Going To Work, Lulls

The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.

- Scott Boras

topic: Baseball, Team, Cities, Lulls

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

- Sasha Grey

topic: Ideas, Lazy, Feels, Stagnant, Lulls

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Source: www.bookslut.com

topic: Lulls, Comfort Food

View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.

- Jean Fleming

topic: God, Hard Times, Opportunity, Lulls, Ferrets

I'm one of those always busy type of people, so when there's a lull, I find something to fill it.

- Rachel Kramer Bussel

topic: People, Busy, Type, Lulls

People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

- Martha Manning

topic: Struggle, Heart, Justice, Lulls

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

- Anton Chekhov

source: Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

topic: Money, World, Better Place, Lulls

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

- Walpola Rahula

topic: Optimistic, Buddhism, Views, Lulls, Peace Tranquility

The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

- Anton Chekhov

source: "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Greed, Lulls

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2339, Modern Library

topic: Distance, Space, Mind, Lulls

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Spring, Wind, Snow, Lulls

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

- Alison Jackson

source: "What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

topic: Photography, Believe, Complacency, Lulls