Poised Quotes

107 quotes by 97 authors

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden… — Gary Snyder
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. — Plotinus
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must… — John Ruskin
Let us be poised, wise and our own today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America… — Aberjhani
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking… — Stewart Udall
My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let… — Ronald Reagan
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter.… — Ronald Reagan
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears… — Ginny Brown-Waite
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigâ€”big money, big businesses selling weedâ€”after 40 years of impoverished black… — Michel'le
The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. — John Thorn
Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World… — George H. W. Bush
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Levy
It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the… — Binyavanga Wainaina
We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is… — Ellen DeGeneres
Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions — Jack Ramsay
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they… — Abraham Lincoln
With leading research universities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and private companies like Blue Sun working on developing alternative fuels, Colorado is poised to become… — Ken Salazar
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised… — Marc Andreessen

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