Quotes of Poise - somelinesforyou

“ I was like: I'm going to ask her out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous. ”

- Matthew

“ If it is to be, it is up to me. ”

- William H. Johnsen

“ We're all in this together - by ourselves. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Do for yourself or do without. ”

- Gaylord Perry

“ The less said the better. ”

- Jane Austen

“ You have to believe in yourself. ”

- Sun tzu

“ Be always sure you're right, then go ahead. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ”

- Louis XIV

“ In a way, it's mathematically sure that if your poise is showing, if you are unhurried and unharried, you're on your budget. ”

- Loretta Young

“ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ”

- James Thurber

“ Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. ”

- Maxwell Maltz

“ At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do. ”

- Claude Williams

“ You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure… ”

- James Gordon Gilkey
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