Quotes About Poise Under Pressure

#1. There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.

Sam Altman

#2. It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba

Gregory Maguire

#3. It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Alex Lowe

#4. I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived.

Gerald Stern

#7. It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock.

J.B. Phillips

#8. It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Thomas Paine

#9. [E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. That was undeniable. But what was also undeniable on this pressure-filled afternoon was Nishikori's poise and grit.

Anonymous

#11. From abundance springs satiety.

Livy

#12. There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Edward Albee

#13. I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.

Julianne Moore

#14. It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

Leonard Hayflick

#15. Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny.

Kathryn Perez

#16. In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.

Gabriel Campisi

#17. There were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.

Lori Brighton