Purpose And Poise Quotes & Sayings

Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents ... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read. — Kenneth Keniston

Even judges' children hear something about the world, they go to the Black Sea like everyone in the country. They look out and feel the same urge to go somewhere, feel it tugging at them from head to toe. You don't have to be particularly bad off to think: This can't be a the life I get. The judges' children know as well as Lilli and me that the same sky that looks down on the border guards stretches all the way to Italy or Canada, where things are better than here. One way or the other, the attempt will be made, whether sooner or later, in this way or that. — Herta Muller

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. — Vance Havner

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice. — Anthony Horowitz

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. — Samuel Johnson

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain
why he did not instantly disappear. — Joseph Conrad

If your husband is overweight, don't ask him how much he weighs or sneak up behind him when he stands on the bathroom scale. — Ellen Fein

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star ... is boring - there are no molecules there. — Roald Hoffmann

We haven't the time to take our time. — Eugene Ionesco

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full. — Henry Kissinger

Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in books, but that almost no one seems to possess. I was wondering to myself: How does she do that? And I figured it could only come from having no regrets - from having made choices with ... such poise and purpose. — Amor Towles

While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat. — Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Better be killed than frightened to death. — Robert Smith Surtees

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose. — Janis Joplin

The guy was still staring at me. I felt rather blushy. Finally I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all [ ... ] After awhile the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flickered my eyebrows up to say, I win. — John Green