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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

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. — Plotinus

Patriots are poised to live to dying for what they believe in — Chukwuka Amu

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

i was poised for greatness, but the poising game me a cramp so i have instead just settled for comfortable mediocrity... (Vimrod # 4904) — Ralph Lazar

How?" asked Mariska. She looked at Darla who was already poised to speak. "I know you can break in Darla, but what if he's home? — Amy Vansant

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 broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up. — Randy Thurman

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

An ocean of ink in a single drop,
Trembling at the tip of my brush.
Poised above stark white paper,
A universe waits for existence. — Lao-Tzu

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. — Jacqueline Carey

You are poised to be the most perfect creature I have ever encountered, under God, and the affection that I feel for you cannot be measured on Earth — Amy A. Bartol

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.
'You're being very silent.'
'That's how men cry. — John Fowles

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

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me. — Nikki Sixx

Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first! — T.F. Hodge

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

7.Remain calm and poised at all times, just like Audrey Hepburn; — Piper Banks

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

Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun. — Robert Hunter

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

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity. — Todd Stocker

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

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. — Harold Macmillan

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

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly ... — Stephen Fry

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

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen. — Helen Fielding

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

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future. — Steve Ballmer

You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between these two polarities. — Margot Anand

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

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked — Barry Davies

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