Quotes About Composure

You were a wonderful lover... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it. Isn't that right? Never had any anxiety about it, did it naturally, easily, slowly, with absolute confidence and perfect calm, more like opening a door for a lady or seating her at a table than giving expression to any longing for her. Your indifference made you wonderful at lovemaking - strange? - but true...

The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it…go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. THEN go postal. But with precision.

Can't we do anything about it? - No! - Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly

This is wilderness, to walk in silence. This is wilderness, to calm the mind. This is wilderness, my return to composure.

I try to keep an even keel.

For me, I try to stay even keel.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.

If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

I think you're extremely rude! And you're doing it on purpose!" "Of course. One should never be rude except on purpose." …"Why?" …"Because one should never appear to anything without intent. It's the secret of poise.

looking round him wildly. The boys were calm and said nothing.

And lock your hands to the table so they don't flail around or touch your hair.

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all.

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.

A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage

She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage

An invulnerable armor is patience.

Balance is the core of health.

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.