Quotes About Composure

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming-Rhett Butler

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

Mummy calm and cool as a cucumber.

Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.

You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Ryan looked amazingly composed, as if he'd thrown an inner switch to Business Mode; there was nothing bitter or resentful in his attitude.

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

Will wondered how Horace could be so calm. He was unaware that Horace was asking himself the same question about Will, feeling the same knotting of stomach muscles. The

Every fiber of his being wanted to run, to get to the stables as quickly as he could. But he forced himself to walk casually, to avoid attracting attention to himself

Halt rose to his feet instantly, knocking his chair over backward, sending it clattering on the bare floorboards of the office. Hastily, he bent to retrieve it and his cowl fell forward over his eyes, so that he was groping blindly for the chair. Finally, he composed himself, shoved the cowl back and righted his chair. Crowley had also risen to his feet, but not in the same precipitate rush as Halt.

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.

Cool, calm and collected, the three seas of wisdom and success.

Morgan's face gave away nothing, smooth as a mirror.

Startle not. Startle not, my beauty.

I've got to give Wainwright credit. She doesn't say I told you so. She doesn't even think it real loud, although the vertical line over her shapely little nose advertises restrained wrath. The funny thing is, I don't think she's angry with me.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Now she watched Nat as a small child watches a teacher from whom it must at all costs learn. He took to himself each day as it came with childlike trustfulness, and so did she. He never complained, and neither did she. He took every misfortune with a grin, and so did she. He took upon himself all the hardest and most unpleasant duties as a matter of mere routine, and she tried to do the same

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.

Try to find balance in everything.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.