Quotes About Composure

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Down at Bournemouth, I kicked a tray of cups up into air, and one hit Luther Blissett on the head. He flicked it on, and it went all over my suit hanging behind. Another time, at West Ham, I also threw a plate of sandwiches at Don Hutchison. He's sitting there, still arguing with me, with cheese and tomato running down his face.

As a fan, Kirk Cousins has this very quiet, composed, confident demeanor that seems to be pretty even-keeled. We don't see him show a ton of emotion. I think that's part of what makes him successful, that he's able to not get too high or too low throughout the course of the game and he keeps his head down, keeps plugging away.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared; all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Faut savoir s'étendre Sans se répandre.

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.

Settle down, Princess. It's not my first time.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.

You never did collapse. Only your eyes showed what was going on inside.

But she would not allow her thoughts to show on her face. She kept her lips tightly pressed together and her expression impassive.

you have a drink, hold it at your waist (not your chest) ?       Stand up straight, keep your shoulders and

They're English," David said, sitting on the bed. "That keep calm and carry on thing is real. You know. Don't talk about stuff that's bad. Talk about tennis! That's how they are.

People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

He returned a moment later, alone, and, after taking a moment to catch his breath, resumed his rightful place on the bench without looking at anyone else in the room. Everyone returned to what they were doing: his affiliates, because they didn't care; the civilians, because they were unnerved. It was as though nothing had happened, though the pervading silence indicated that indeed something had.

Por fora, o recato em pessoa. Calma de semblante e retirada, parecendo a própria mansidão; por dentro, ardendo de desejo, "em fogo consumida", como Oxum, seu orixá. Ah!, Dionísia, se soubesses como o fogo de Oxum queima as noites de tua comadre e seu corpo moreno, seu pelado ventre, lhe mandarias dar um banho de folhas ou um marido.

But the policeman radiates the calm and ease of a traffic light;

He tried hard to speak calmly, and to ask sensible questions that would help him understand.