Quotes About Composture

#1. The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#2. We emphasise the features on satellite maps by adding colours to farmland, urban structures, archaeological sites, vegetation and water.

Sarah Parcak

#3. Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Newt Gingrich

#4. They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry,

John Edward Williams

#5. If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Ralph Merkle

#6. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Billy Joel

#7. I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

#8. Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Wyndham Lewis

#9. The news did not trouble her particularly; all news was bad, like wage demands, strikes, or war, and the wise person paid no attention to it. What was important was that it was a bright, sunny day; her first narcissi were in bloom, and the daffodils behind them were already showing flower buds.

Nevil Shute

#10. There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Pema Chodron

#11. Such an Ibisian scene: both their faces were formal masks, their posture correct, pain kept inside where it cut deeper.

Andrea K. Host

#12. Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Augusto Pinochet

#13. I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Edmund Hillary