Top 38 Quotes About Self Composure
#1. No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#2. I saw his eyes widen and his mouth fall open and his expression change from stoic to stunned.
Quinn Sullivan had lost his composure.
He looked completely astonished and it took my entire slow march down the aisle for him to recover
Penny Reid
#3. Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob M. Braude
#4. I'm glad nothing requires my intervention, because I'm trying hard to maintain my composure. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman naked and I don't think I'll ever be the same.
Sara Gruen
#5. Ugh!" She threw her hands in the air. "No? No? That's your favorite word, isn't it?
"It's a classic," he told her calmly, his composure only succeeding in making her more irate. "So much simpler than, say, 'ain't gonna happen' or 'not a chance in hell.
Julie Ann Walker
#6. I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.
Thomm Quackenbush
#7. I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
Thomas Paine
#8. We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.
Robert Frost
#9. I will make arrangements for you and Portia to return to London the following day. I will be closing up the house. I am leaving England for a while." "For how long?" I asked him, determined to keep my composure. "Until I am quite recovered from you," he said evenly. "When will you return?" "Never.
Deanna Raybourn
#10. Meanwhile, I was holding on to my composure by sheer force of will. But when we ended the call I was likely going to dismember Greg's favorite boxer briefs and hide his cell phone charger.
Penny Reid
#11. Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more."
That's me! And you, probably! That's us!
Nick Hornby
#12. Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#15. She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else's happiness - no - their very existence.
Collette Cameron
#16. It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.
Bernhard Schlink
#17. Composure, a level head, a knowledge of what you want done, and why you want it done and
faith in your own ability to have it done gives composure to the whole school. Restlessness, lack
of faith in self, fear of failure, these bring about the very conditions you are striving to avoid,
Thomas E. Sanders
#18. I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. Yves Saint Laurent liked women to put their hands in their pockets, or to hold cigarettes, and act a bit like boys. It was to give an impression of composure, some self-assurance, and to counter the feminine appearance.
Carine Roitfeld
#20. Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
#21. He'd pushed it back, where he'd kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn't stay. Wouldn't stop. Wouldn't let him go.
Veronica Rossi
#22. Emotions generally led to irrational and stupid actions. In this game, they were likely to be fatal. He regained his composure and became logical, rational, disconnected.
Roger Weston
#23. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
George D. Prentice
#24. So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe - all its matter and forms of energy - arise out of thought.
Dean Koontz
#25. This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure.
Terry Tempest Williams
#26. Lewis Alison, a dark, craggy man of more than common height, gave no sign of sharing in the general curiosity. He stayed in his place, seeming to have wrapped himself in a composure not easily disturbed.
Charles Morgan
#27. You look a little flushed," he expressed in a pompous tone. I couldn't believe he called me on it. "Do you need me to pull over?" What a pretentious ass! He knew exactly why I was red in the face. I was from embarrassment. I clenched my jaw trying to keep my composure.
Nely Cab
#28. Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision be proved right and true.
Stuart Hill
#29. Ted," he said, "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'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
Mitch Albom
#30. 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.
Cassandra Clare
#31. But she forgot nothing, and he sometimes forgot much too quickly, and, often that same day, encouraged by her composure, would laugh and frolic over the champagne, if friends stopped by. What venom must have been in her eyes at those moments yet he noticed nothing!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.
Emily Blunt
#33. All of the grace with which he moved and lived, all of his elegance and composure would fall away like the thinnest, gossamer-like film, to reveal the manic beast within.
Lynn Kelling
#34. While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves.
Travis Bradberry
#35. the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.
George MacDonald
#36. It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
