Quotes About Poised

Keep cool but care

Oddly, I am really cool under pressure.

She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.

To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn't need taboos to protect it. It's not considered improper to make disparaging remarks about Americans, or the English. And yet a group has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo.

Outlaws have to be poised, smart, and independent; they have to cultivate allies, assess risk, and keep their antennae fine-tuned to everyone and everything around them. Outlaws focus on what people can do.

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

He who is strung doesn't need a tongue.

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

She had appeared calmer to them

Je suis prest." I am ready.

I dont get ruffled easily.

I am in the prime of my womanhood, nunga-nungas poised and trembling (attractively). Lips puckered up and in peak condition for a snogging fest.

She was as cool as dammit.

Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.

On your marks, he had said to the nation, for a race with destiny.… Get set for the greatest effort of our history. Then, while the people waited poised and tense, he tucked the starter's gun back in his pocket and went off to a Hyde Park weekend." The

On your marks, he had said to the nation, for a race with destiny.… Get set for the greatest effort of our history. Then, while the people waited poised and tense, he tucked the starter's gun back in his pocket and went off to a Hyde Park weekend." The British,

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

While Diana remained poised and calm in front of the press, in private she cared desperately about Prince Charles and the outcome of the courtship. She expressed her concern to me: "I will simply die if this doesn't work out. I won't be able to show my face.

great machine, stripped of her last coverings, poised on the greensward

Twilight ran along the harp's bronze strings and the bard's voice rose and dropped, not unlike the fells to the east, making a twisting, hypnotic rhythm of poised and perfect words.

Dynasty glided right through the chaos as though none of it involved her. The