Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine…

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

— Euripides

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values…

— Jasper Fforde

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“There are two things which are undeniably cool: walking away from explosions without looking back and turning up late to parties.”

— Frances White

“The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let’s face it: I most definitely give a fuck now. I give…

— Anthony Bourdain

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted…

— George Friedman

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation,…

— Paulo Coelho

“See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It’s more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or…

— Ned Vizzini

Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there…

— Kiersten White

Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had…

— Lauren Oliver