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She wears a cape, and it is this that undoes her - that allows her to be pulled, limbs light and poised as a cat, from her horse.
— Madeline Miller
The property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.
— Michel De Montaigne
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
— Marshall McLuhan
If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.
— Ruth Marcus
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
— Harold Macmillan
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
— Puzant Kevork Thomajan
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
— Jacqueline Carey
He was poised on circumstance.
— Louise Erdrich
Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
— Sarah Dessen
Outside, the night seemed poised on tiptoe, waiting, waiting, holding its breath for the storm.
— Natalie Babbitt
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
— Robert Gottlieb
Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.
— Robert Mueller
My question, with its mark inverted, becomes the fishhook poised to catch my answer.
— Garry Fitchett
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
— Anne Carson
My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
— Gary Snyder
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
— Rudy Giuliani
There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.
— Kristine K. Stevens
his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.
— Ross Macdonald
I was poised on its dizzy summit,
— Marcel Proust
Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
— Jack Ramsay
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.
— Gloria Feldt
And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.
— Frank Herbert
The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us ...
— Marcel Proust
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
— Steven Levy
His dagger was out, poised at her throat. Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.
— George R R Martin
Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.
— Anthony Doerr
As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.
— Angela Ruggiero
The overall effect made Vos like a falcon poised in that exquisite instant between free fall and flight, and for a moment he couldn't breath.
— Christie Golden
She was poised and sympathetic, like a girl who'd just come from the future but didn't want to brag about it.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.
— Anne Michaels
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
— Alexander Chase
The spinners were watching me, waiting, needles poised, and unless I did their bidding then my fate would be failure.
— Bernard Cornwell
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
— Virginia Woolf