Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.