Quotes About Composure

When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

She was hardly more affable than a cameo.

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grownup. Friendly but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.

Steele was in typical form. What she wouldn't give to shake him up. Just once. She wondered if anything ever ruffled him. Caught him off guard. Or surprised him.

Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

As I've already explained, Lady Shadow, I've spent a lot of time at court. I'm already well-versed in the art of bowing and keeping my mouth shut." "Ha! But have you read Crumpets and Cravats?

Today, I will strive for balance.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

His was not, I could see now, the heroism of an Achilles. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example.

We must be content and think it no fault; /

In every discipline, the ability to be clearheaded, present, cool under fire is much of what separates the best from the mediocre.

Erik choked back the insult he'd been on the verge of uttering. Judging by his expression, it was viler than a castor-oil purgative.

Lo que más indigna al charlatán es alguien silencioso y digno.

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

I like Draymond Green's intensity... but every time I didn't get a call I didn't cry all the time.

I get fired up in big games. Other guys might get scared, but with me, my intensity overrules my jitteriness.

She figured that any day now she was going to start feeling the simple composure of normalcy that Jane Austen's heroines always sought to maintain, the state described in those days as "countenance," and later as "being cool.

compos mentis.

That's not the same as bookkeeping!" How can she be so fucking clam!

When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on.

He is only six years older than me. Ooh-ooh-ooh," she wailed in a quite unaristocratic, entirely demotic manner, like a peasant woman, and Dolgorukoi's composure dissolved completely.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

Brutus was out of the car first. He opened the door for me. I thanked him. Brutus stuck with the stoic. He had the kind of cigar-store-Indian face you couldn't imagine—and probably wouldn't ever want to see—smiling. On