Losing composure is pointless.
Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be
I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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.
Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
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.
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly. Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. 'But a spanking brought him into line. ' Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure. That's not one of ours, dear,' she said. 'He belongs next door.
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds. . . Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?
A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.
In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure
Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.
It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
