Quotes About Composure

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

When you have to write a letter, you're automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can't help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped off at me.

I want to be a professional. I want to be like my TV father, Bill Smitrovich. He's an easy, calm actor. I don't want to freak out.

Przepraszam, ?e byÅ'am dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdÄ™ irytujÄ…ce, ?e stoi siÄ™ jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy m??czyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego D?entelmena, chÅ'odnego i zorganizowanego, z caÅ'Ä… pozÄ… ziemianina i wszystkim.

Jest pan zadziwiajÄ…cy, jak na m??czyznÄ™, który stara siÄ™ zachowywa? jak ukwiaÅ'!

The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.

she lacks the nonchalance for conducting deep discussions;

By the time the lawyer had finished, K. had completely regained his composure; he even nodded emphatically at his final words, which reconfirmed his original conviction that the lawyer, now as always, was attempting to divert his attention from the main question by conveying general information having nothing to do with the matter at hand, which was what he had actually accomplished in K. case.

Whether you win or lose, you need to stay on a level platform.

Win or lose, just stay calm.

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.

She was a woman of reserve.

There was a solid air about him as he walked through the pandemonium of the plant in his conservative gray suits. The thin veins on his massive cheeks were like the engraving on gilt-edged securities.

Shh," she said sternly, as if Luc had been the one who'd just let out the caterwaul.

Que querias tu, afinal, meu velho mestre de primeiras letras? Lição de cor e compostura na aula; nada mais, nada menos do que quer a vida, que é das últimas letras; com a diferença que tu, se me metias medo, nunca me meteste zanga.

You want your response to be the same for the easy things as for the harder things so that you don't reveal what's easy and what's hard by the way you answer.

Patience triumphs over everything.

She'd learned that it was important when you were dealing with professional do-gooders to keep calm. Otherwise they judged you. Wrote things like anger-management problems in their reports.

He crossed his legs in a slick way that showed that here was a guy, finally, who really knew how to sit down and cross his legs.

I'm glad nothing requires my intervention, because I'm trying hard to maintain my composure. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman naked and I don't think I'll ever be the same.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised - Dr Barlow

And show me the man who is ill-tempered and yet is good enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy all around him!

This sally somewhat nettled Wilhelm; but he concealed his sentiments, remembering that Werner used to listen with composure to his apostrophes.