Quotes About Composure

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

i am the most even-tempered man i know,' clark protested. 'right, no one's ever lived long enough for you to get really mad. they're dead by the time you're mildly annoyed.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.

Chin up! You're a Montrose, and we stay calm and composed everywhere, always.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." MICHAEL CAINE

You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.

Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

Q. Why don't the British panic? A. They do, but very quietly. It is impossible for the naked eye to tell their panic from their ecstasy.

The longer Cersei waits, the angrier she'll become, and anger makes her stupid. I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.

I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.

A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it.

Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. He never seemed ill at ease, and even when he did not speak the language, he had ways of making himself understood.

Humans are frail in our eyes today, and we secretly wonder whether those with poise and stiff upper lips are merely ticking time bombs. The freak-out allows us to feel we're not alone in our inner panic.

You've not got much to say for yourself, but that's a nice change in a girl.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.

She didn't hurry as she walked to him. Something told her he was a man too used to people — women certainly — rushing toward him. So she took her time, her long, slow strides flapping her borrowed coat around her chilly legs.

Joy was worn like a new suit of clothes on people. You could see it on every inch of them, from their step to their stare. But sadness and loss were hidden, kept quiet under composure and the shelter of daily activity.

Sometimes composure was all you had; dignity your only consolation; the illusion of all right your sole source of comfort.

People say of every opponent, 'When are you going to knock him out?' But I'm not like Mike Tyson, who came flying out of his corner. I'm much more composed. A guy is supposed to be durable, but then I start finding my range, and, well, it comes together. Boom.