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«Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.»
Author: Alexander Chase | Keywords: air, air travel, exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, hang, immortality, lovers, poised
«The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense»
Author: Puzant Kevork Thomajan | Keywords: poised, subtly, tact
«We stand today poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight. This, in brief, is the quiet conservation crisis.»
Author: Stewart L. Udall (Secretary) | Keywords: blight, blighted, diminished, increasing, pinnacle, pinnacles, poised, pollution, shrinking, vanishing
«For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.»
Author: Thomas Mann (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Adversity | Keywords: adverse, aggression, fatalities, fatality, gracefully, poised
«(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion»
Author: Harold Macmillan | Keywords: cliche, Foreign Secretary, indiscretion, indiscretions, poised, secretary
«I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.»
Author: Bill Watterson (Author) | Keywords: alarmed, alarming, alienate, alienated, avenue, avenues, Avenue of, consuming, cynical, extent, Hollywood, kid, Madison, peering, peers, planet, poised, raised, resource, take over, take over the world, The Alarm, The Avenue
«When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (President) | Keywords: crush, poised, rattlesnake, struck
«Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt (President) | About: Character, God, Law and lawyers | Keywords: circling, Edge of, emanation, emanations, lawgiver, poised, radiate, radiated, radiates, radiating, subjected, The Mighty, verily
«Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: bolts, poised
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