Composure Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composure Contentment Dignity
“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“While he knew he could count on her discretion in public, all was fair when it came to family.” — Kristi Ann Hunter Copy Share Image
“It became its own discipline, the fear of failing to do as they said; a voice in her head berating her before anyone else… — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
“What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.” — Emily C.A. Snyder Copy Share Image
“But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“It seemed enough for her to just deal with whatever it was that came her way, calmly and without fuss.” — Han Kang Copy Share Image
“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty — John Keats Copy Share Image
I've added a bit more composure on the ball and defensively got a bit cuter and improved in one-on-ones. — Ross Barkley Copy Share Image
In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy. — Pell James Copy Share Image
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr Copy Share Image
Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Always behave like a duck: keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
