Quotes About Composure

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

But the absolute control over his facial muscles to which M. de Norpois had attained allowed him to listen without seeming to hear a word.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Leisure with dignity.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

Well, for future reference, this is my serious face.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

I didn't stop in my tracks because I have a lot of practice in not physically reacting to things no matter how much they shock or horrify me.

He can't hear me," Jai retorted. But it was better to present a cool united front to Canon Hain, not look as if they had been arguing like children. Especially if they had been arguing like children.

Ratthi had to fold his lips almost completely inside his mouth to keep from reacting.

The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces, is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind, the incarnation of the spirit.

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.

Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish.

Your friend has quite the temper." "Don't I know it.

Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat.

Be his [Sophocles']My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,From first youth tested up to extreme old age,Business could not make dull, nor passion wild:Who saw life steadily and saw it whole.

he had avoided the full brunt of danger and still retained his dignity. And

There is no meaning. Only balance. Only symmetry.

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!